Yard with Lunatics

Lomex is pleased to present its second solo exhibition with New York based artist David Flaugher. On view in the space is a suite of paintings by Flaugher all produced in 2022, alongside a series of new sculptures made in concord. Flaugher’s still-lives are rendered without any real world sources. Conceptual works which reference the paintings of artists as varied as Hammershøi, Morandi, Cezanne and Courbet, they incorporate brushwork characteristic of Color Field painters like Clifford Still. Like historical vanitas paintings, their compositions are simultaneously static and transient. Situated in nonspecific windowless interiors, Flaugher’s pieces employ the same motifs and methods in variation. Uncommon to the genre, in scale they are larger than life. On the floor are a series of wax stars inset with LED lights, and in one corner, a turtle with an overturned star on its back (perhaps a reference to the unfortunate pet of Huysmans’ Des Esseintes). Like Flaugher’s earlier works, they call to mind the anxious atmosphere of middle-American households around the holidays. All cast by hand, the lights in the pieces will last for a number of years, but will eventually burn out, unable to be replaced.