The butter and the money for the butter is a new limited edition artwork by Lucas Blalock, produced on the occasion of the 2019 NY Art Book Fair. The work is constructed of 8 individual photographs printed on aluminum and bound with cloth to create a book-like sculptural object. In it Blalock is playing with both a flatfooted literalization of still life as “things-on-a-table” and with cinematic montage of different image relationships produced through the viewer’s movement around the work. Through the use of ambiguous objects, extreme surface tension, and yet oddly familiar characters, the work offers a glimpse into the uncanny and a perpetually shifting universe.

The butter and the money for the butter is comprised of 8 dye-sublimation on aluminum prints bound with cloth, with custom clamshell box.

Lucas Blalock has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently with solo shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland. His work is currently included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. Blalock’s recent artist books include: A Grocer’s Orgy (Primary Information, 2018); Making Memeries (SPBH Editions, 2016); Inside the White Cub (Peradam, 2014); Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013); and Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011); among others.