Benjamin Lord @ CCE, Opening April 5.

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March 24, 2008 Benjamin Lord, Local Horses Lounge @ Confederacy of Creative Ephemera A project space inside Circus Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, April 5, 6 - 8PM CCE/Circus Gallery 7065 Lexington Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 Saturday, April 5 – May 10, 2008 Tues – Sat 11AM – 6PM 323-962-8506 www.circus-gallery.com info@circus-gallery.com Parasang. Ancient Persian. The distance a horse can walk in an hour. For most of human history, the horse has acted as the link between the local landscape and the larger world. Horses allowed people to travel further, faster, literally the measure of time and space. The horse was the organic, animal link between the spaces that we can see directly, and the world beyond the horizon that we believe in, but have not personally experienced. It was only the introduction of the railroad, and later the automobile, that made the horse obsolete as a practical tool for closing the gaps of time and space. Today that role has been assumed by the computer. Digitally-based technologies now allow instant global communication on a mass scale. In one sense, this allows for a greater transparency. The German word for television (fernsehen) literally means see-far. But in another sense, the digital world is fundamentally opaque, because the workings of even a simple digital circuit board are incomprehensible to all but a few, and also because the massive wholesale manipulations of fact that digital tools easily enable are potentially seamless, concealing their means utterly. Local Horses, a photographic book recently self-published by Benjamin Lord, depicts brightly-hued horses in and around various greater Los Angeles environments. Focusing on horses of the most improbable colors, the book collides the documentary with the anti-documentary, creating a metaphoric space of contradiction. Stenciled off of organic, animal reality, but assembled and printed using digital tools, the images of the book starkly juxtapose the historic horse-based view of time/space with its contemporary digital counterpart. The book continues Lord’s ongoing explorations of pictorial illusionism, the evolving California landscape, the cultural mechanisms of photography, the boundary between process and product, and the relationship between fiction and reality. The exhibition Local Horses Lounge is a study-room, situated within the Confederacy of Creative Ephemera at Circus that interprets the themes of the book out into the room itself, defined as a total environment, combining the techniques of sculpture, printmaking, furniture, and performance. A framed cutaway view of the gallery wall reveals the “bricks,” made of paper proofs of Lord’s previous book. At the opening on April 5 Lord will complete the installation with a new group of wax crayon rubbings of an enlarged 19th century engraving. The opening will also be attended by Millie, a green horse depicted in the book. Following his graduation from the MFA program at UCLA in 2002, Benjamin Lord was the recipient of a Residency Award, from the La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France. His work has appeared in Los Angeles galleries including Hayworth Gallery and Apartment 2, Rivington Arms in New York and the Galeria dels Angels in Barcelona, Spain Last September his work appeared in Western Lands at the Balmoral in Venice, CA.