Patrick Gomez 4 Sheriff
3373 E. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca 90023
Pg4s.wtf
November 4th, 2014.
For Immediate Release:
The Patrick Gomez 4 Sheriff Gallery is EXTREMELY pleased to present Mountain, an exhibition of new works by Jason Roberts Dobrin. The show will consist of three distinct yet related bodies of work as well as a new publication published by the artist’s own independent book publishing project: Golden Spike Press.
Mountain will be centered around a series of photographs taken in 2010 during the artists’ travels to the Patagonia Mountains. The photographs featured are all hand printed and presented with the intention of highlighting each ones own idiosyncrasies. These idiosyncrasies are commonly understood to be a very present symptom of the analog that through the implementation of the digital we no longer have to grapple with, are presented here as a foundational aspect of the work. Through subtle flaws, and imagistic shifts from work to work we begin to notice the use of seriality begin to break down with a focus on the “objecthood” of each photograph. Stylistically they reference artists included in the New Topographics exhibition and resulting movement. The subject matter here is approached through a distanced and objectified lens and speaks more about the aesthetic formal qualities of the image then of a specific location or site.
Accompanying the photographs, Dobrin will exhibit a new sculptural work as well as two new small-scale paintings on recycled film box lids. The sculpture, a DISGUSTING and DEGRADED found shirt mounted to an equally DERELICT piece of GARBAGE wood panel is presented here as a kind of fictitious relic. Through the artists use of allegory we can here understand this thing as a kind of “mountain refuse”. The sculpture sits leaning on a shallow shelf and is meant to be presented with a neutral objective detachment. Along side, are two intimate paintings of mountains, which each utilize a similar neutral approach to framing. Both are crudely rendered on repurposed cardboard boxes which are now rendered as painting supports with their own inherent framing mechanisms.
Jason Roberts Dobrin received his BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2005 where he studied under and Reagan Louie and Henry Wessel, and his MFA from The California Institute of the Arts in 2013. He is a co-founder of the independent book publishing project Golden Spike Press, and is founding members of the San Francisco based photo collective Hamburger Eyes. Recent solo exhibitions include Adobe Books in San Francisco in 2014, Casa Felix Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2010 and 2008, and at Photo Epicenter in San Francisco in 2007. Recent group exhibitions include Pool Heat, curated by Anne Guro Larsmon at the Kunstforeningen Verdens Ende in Tjøme, Norway in 2014, Super Awesome at The Oakland Museum of Art in Oakland, Ca., 2014, and U Don’t Like Me I Don’t Like You, at O.H.W.O.W Gallery in Miami, FL., 2009. Jason Roberts Dobrin has spoken publicly about his work at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Ca., 2012, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2006. His work has been published in the Catalogue for the exhibition Bay Area Now, 4 at the Yerba Buena Center and he has self published nearly 20 publications of his own work.
Patrick Gomez 4 Sheriff is a project space run by JPW3 and Sayre Gomez. The space takes its name from the recent candidate for Sheriff of Los Angeles County, Patrick Gomez. PG4S will focus on keeping the peace and making sure the artist is always right. For the opening the gallery will serve Tea and Cake.
