In the front gallery space, a wall-mounted sculpture, The Oracle, 2020, grew out of scavenged, disinterred detritus, commingled with fragments of strange quarantine dreams. WORKLIGHT is laid out in nearly chronological order to its making. Others are chaotic and formless, gathering into something insistently specific, only to collapse again into the unnamable, left to be perceived as a fraction of a moment caught between two eternities. Some appear milky and melted, only to burst open with crystalline precision. These chimerical bodies move from geological to mechanical, erotic to the mundane, mineral to animal, and architectural to cosmological. The seventeen sculptures that comprise this year-long investigation reveal individual forms that act as fossils or accretions of lost time. The path between his home and studio acted as an art supply store of the uncanny, paralleling the dreamlike corridor inwards amid accumulating seclusion. With production commencing at the start of quarantine, Long’s studio quietude allowed for a detox of mind and an organic accrual of new forms and practices.
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This dichotomy unfolds Long’s relationship with the processes of time, the flow between inner and outer experience, and the building up and breaking down of realities.
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In WORKLIGHT, a title obtained from a scrap of plastic the artist found while crossing an intersection on his daily bike ride to the studio, Charles Long presents a new body of assemblage works playing with the openness of consciousness (light) against the seeming limits of physical material (work). Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present Charles Long’s second solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Gallery, and thirteenth with the gallery, on view April 10 through May 28, 2021.