Lucas Blalock & Sam Falls

Statement

Lucas Blalock & Sam Falls

The two of us met in the spring of last year and ever-since have kept up a dialogue about the kinds of things we are working on. We found in common (amongst other things) a love of books and a desire to explore new territories in making pictures. The portfolio here presented does not constitute a survey of either of our projects, nor is it a truly collaborative effort. It is really much more like an evidence of this dialogue, or at least, a smaller conversation within the larger one. Both of us work with a variety of tools and this format only allows for a limited presentation. This edit, in turn, brings together a group of previously unpublished pictures that we finalized during a studio visit in early November by playing a kind of matching game. The work leans disproportionately towards computer-based interventions on both our parts, however, to a degree, this has been central to the dialogue between us. For both of us the computer has provided a fruitful experimental situation, and it has been in the wider context of experimentation that our friendship has taken root. We hope you enjoy the pictures.

Bio
Lucas Blalock was born in Asheville, NC in 1978 (Year of the Horse). Blalock has a BA from Bard College, and since 2004 has exhibited his work nationally at venues including Vox Populi in Philadelphia and Eighth Veil in Los Angeles. Blalock was also a long-standing member of North Carolina’s NADA affiliated Branch Gallery until it closed its doors this past summer. In 2009 he published his first book of photographs, I Believe You, Liar (iceberg, iceberg, iceberg). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Sam Falls was born in San Diego, CA in 1984, spent his formative years in Vermont, and now lives in Brooklyn. He graduated with a BA from Reed College in 2007 and will finish his MFA at ICP-Bard this spring. He has several self-published books available at Dashwood Books, as well as Color Dying Light published by Hassla this year and an upcoming book this summer with Lay Flat. He has upcoming solo shows in New York at Higher Pictures (February), Capricious Space (June) and his MFA thesis show in April.