Jake Longstreth, 'In Los Angeles'. Photo: Dawn Blackman, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler
Jake Longstreth’s solo exhibition, ‘California Landscapes’, explores the artist’s continued documentation of American rural landscapes. Presenting eight large-scale paintings and thirteen works on paper, the exhibition captures different locations Longstreth has visited or encountered in Southern California. Drawing inspiration from Carleton Watkins’s documentation of America, Longstreth utilises a deep brown tonal palette and contrasting light to construct a landscape which transports viewers to these locations, providing a visceral sense of a lived experience. Recurring motifs of tennis courts, parking lots, and Amazon delivery trucks peek through the landscape and are framed by bushes, flowers and surrounding foliage. Contextualising what we...
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Potrait of Jake Longstreth. Photo by Holger NiehausJake Longstreth (b. 1977, Sharon, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles, USA. Longstreth recounts the changing modern landscapes of our time. Astutely observing the corners of suburban America, the artist primarily documents restaurant and retail chains, immortalising many which are becoming increasingly obsolete. In his nature landscapes, Longstreth’s ...
