Lucas Ajemian

Ltd Los Angeles is please to share Lucas Ajemian's second solo exhibition with the gallery, Humus. Lucas Ajemian's current works explore issues of authorship, chance, and the renewal and dissolution of forms and images.

Three distinct series of works commingle in Humus.

The first is a group of humidifiers staged throughout the space (Not Yet Titled, 2015). Embedded in each of these banal home appliances is a uniquely voiced synthesizer, responsive to the movements of visitors, as well as to shifts in the temperature and ambient light of the gallery. This environmental sculpture alters the surrounding atmospheric density through the emission of sound and moisture.

Placed alongside each humidifier are new videos based on animated images of compost, (Compositions I-V, 2015), montaged with 3D models, images of the artist's studio, shop windows, as well as leftover clips from older and unrealized projects. The various videos oscillate between intervals of stillness and frenzied activity. Accompanied by the constantly shifting chorus of humidifiers, the output of sound an image never settles into a static configuration.

The third set of works, are new paintings from the series, Laundered Paintings, in which Ajemian, takes the paintings of fellow artists, washes, crops, and re-authors them.

Throughout the exhibition elusive affinities emerge between these groups of works, as do arresting contradictions and distractions.

Ajemian recently participated in the group exhibition, Second Chances, at the Aspen Art Museum. Ajemian's 2014 solo exhibition, Laundered Paintings at Marlborough Broome St., was reviewed by Suzanne Hudson in Artforum.