Capture Speaker Series | Artist Talk with Lucas Blalock

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Lucas Blalock, Conch and Berries and, 2015-17. (Courtesy Lucas Blalock, Galerie Eva Presenhuber (New York/Zurich/Vienna) and Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels))

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Lucas Blalock discusses his career and public art installation at The GreyChurch Billboard for the 2023 Capture Photography Festival.

When

Apr 18, 2023 6:00pm – 7:00pm

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Location

On Campus

Rennie Hall B2160

520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2 See on Map

Contact

Birthe Piontek | bpiontek@ecuad.ca

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Yes

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Capture Photography Festival presents its second Speaker Series talk with photographer Lucas Blalock. Join us for a discussion of Blalock’s career and his public art installation at The GreyChurch Billboard for the 2023 Capture Photography Festival.

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The GreyChurch Billboard is generously supported by Jane Irwin and Ross Hill.

This event is part of the 2023 Capture Photography Festival Speaker Series and is presented by Capture Photography Festival in partnership with the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and is generously supported by Bruce Munro Wright.

About Lucas Blalock

Lucas Blalock is an artist working in photography who has exhibited widely. He has staged solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum Kurhaus in Kleve, Germany as well as in galleries in the US and in Europe. His work has also been included in The 2019 Whitney Biennial as well as in shows at The Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Malmo Kunsthall.

Blalock also makes books with titles including Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011), Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013), Making Memeries (SPBH, 2016), A Grocer’s Orgy (Primary Information, 2018), Figures (Zolo Press, 2022), and Why Must the Mounted Messenger Be Mounted? (Objectiv, 2022). Oar Or Ore, an expansive survey of the artist’s work since 2013 through the lens of recent exhibitions will be published by Museum Kurhaus later this year.

Blalock, originally from Asheville, North Carolina, holds a BA from Bard College, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received his MFA from UCLA. He is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich and New York and by Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels. Blalock is also an Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.