Noah Dillon New Works Is A Beautiful REM-State Dream
Pio Pico, LA presents New Works, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Noah Dillon curated by Noemi Polo. Noah’s unique trajectory as an artist is key to understanding his perspective and mission. Dillon spent his formative years in Durango, Colorado, a town situated upon the ‘ four corner’ of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. His upbringing in a rural environment, liminally positioned both nowhere and everywhere, inspired a fascination with the American imagination and landscape; how our internal landscapes are cathected onto the material world. Contrasted by his cosmopolitan career as a fashion photographer in Los Angeles, his perspective tensions the old west and the new gods of Americana. New Works explores the corporeal body and its relationship to the engineered landscape. Featuring a series of photographs captured from trail cameras installed across disparate parts of Los Angeles— a Whole Foods, Griffith Park, and MacArthur intersection— Dillon has amassed nearly 1 million images, of which a selection of ten are featured. The anonymous, mechanized capture of the trail cameras is imbued with a delicate attentiveness, one that Dillon uses to construct a non-linear narrative of space and time in the City of Angels. Within this microscopic attention to detail, there’s a discrete pathos in the imbuement of human touch to a camera that functions without it. Moments where the camera had been covered by someone’s thumb have been compiled to form “Untitled - Red Collage”, an experiment in color and form. Centered in the middle of the exhibition is “Untitled - White Dome” that acts as a gravitational center—turning the god-sized hole of late modernity into a reflective pool in which ‘the self’ is simultaneously implicated and alienated. On view until August 26 at Pio Pico.