John Sisley Plays It As It Lays
John Sisley's art feels apocalyptic, like documentation that some strange experiment took place. Exploring a sort of science of the surreal, Sisley autopsies then reassembles objects giving them a new form and function. His minimal still lifes utilize stark blacks and whites- a clinical, detached kind of palette. Photographs are torn, pieced together and re-photographed. Sand from a three minute hour glass is removed then sculpturally arranged and rearranged. Permanence is fleeting.
For Play It As It Lays, Gallery Spaces' current exhibit, Sisley shares two roadside images en route to Las Vegas.
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John Sisley was recently included in the 2008 exhibition LA25, at LACE, Los Angeles. A project created by Skadden & Arp to showcase the talents of some of the young artists whose work will enhance the richness of Los Angeles’cultural life, LA25 was curated by Thomas Solomon and juried by John Baldessari, Kris Kuramitsu, Weston Naef, Cathy Opie, Ann Philbin, and Paul Schimmel. John Sisley lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
By Lauren Steinberg for Gallery Space
