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SITE 4

The collection of gold tone incandescent objects in Richard Aybar’s breakthrough exhibition 

 are not a product of postmodern alchemy, but formed from organic primordial ooze. Cast in rubber, Aybar’s rocking chair, lamps, vases and innovative love seat table, assume elementary and historicized shapes that accentuate their raw materiality. His functional and tactile designs invite us to marvel at their resistant, resplendent, and sumptuous textures. Suspended in captivating amber silhouettes, Aybar’s collection provokes our inherent attraction to this mysterious polymorphic substance triggering our associations with both the materiality and iconography of his chosen medium, rubber.

Our physical and visual engagement with Aybar’s pieces signal a complex semiotic discourse present in his work. This collection of enigmatic objects simultaneously highlights and obfuscates the social and design histories behind Aybar’s unexpected material choice. Materiality is the central theme of Aybar’s design narrative. Rubber with its myriad of forms and functions, when applied to art and design, assumes distinctly Baroque tropes as a dynamic, decadent, and duplicitous substance. Subverting design canon, Aybar manipulates this organic and industrial material in provocative ways, delving into the uncertain intersection of commodity and aesthetics.

, From Amber Alert Series, 2019
Rich Aybar, R.A. Workshop

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C&D SERIES of 100. Each piece uniquely assembled from North American construction debris endemic to the rural building practices in the northeastern region. Namely the use of materials such as American chestnut (a critically endangered species), white oak, and pine. Rough cut lumber, saw banded 2x4s, oxidized steel pipes and scrap metal sheets. Topped by rubber castings from the R.A. WORKSHOP mold explorations.

, From Construction Debris Series, 2022
Rich Aybar, R.A. Workshop

Casted Urethane rubber, American pine, oxidized steel
H 71 inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, American Pine, oxidized steel
H 78.5 inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, American pine, oxidized steel
H 88 inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, American chestnut, American pine, oxidized steel
H 80 x W 36inches (approximately)

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Casted Urethane rubber, American chestnut
H 48inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, oxidized steel
H 53 inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, oxidized steel
H 52inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, oxidized steel
H 17inches

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Casted Urethane rubber, oxidized steel
H 17 inches

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Images courtesy of David Lewis Gallery and John Boskovich

John Boskovich (b. 1956, Los Angeles, d. 2006, Los Angeles) received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1985. Boskovich’s selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Psycho Salon, O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA; Dead Center / Marginal Notes: John Boskovich, curated by John Neff, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL; New Work and the It Series (1990-1996), Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Boskostudio, artist studio and home, Los Angeles, CA; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rude Awakening, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mike Kelley and John Boskovisch, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Playing with the Truth, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY among others. Selected group exhibitions include This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; La Pédida / Perdido, DXIX Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Tongues Untied, curated by Rebecca Matalon, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA; Sylvia Bataille, curated by Adam Marnie and Rebecca Matalon, Joan, Los Angeles, CA; Sentimental Education, curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York, NY; Art/Journalism, curated by Lawrence Rickles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Salon of ‘99, curated by David Rimanelli, The Fifth International, New York, NY; The Unreal Person: Portraiture in the Digital Age, curated by Irit Krygier, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA; Harriet Craig, curated by David Rimanelli, Apex Art, New York, NY; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Hollywood Satan, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts, curated by Robert A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to The Spencer Museum, Lawrence, KS; A Man’s World, curated by Russell Ferguson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Moderns, curated by Tony Payne, Feature, New York, NY; Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France; The Camera I: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sidney Irmas Collection, curated by Robert A. Sobieszek and Deborah Irmas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Frederiksborg Nationalhistorisk Museum, Hillerød, Denmark; Hollywood, Hollywood, curated by Fred Fehlau, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, CA; ELAC Art Contemporain, Lyon, France; The Library of Babel: Books to Infinity, curated by Todd Alden, White Columns, New York, NY; traveled to Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York, NY; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, MD; traveled to Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, MA; Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH; University of Missouri Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO; Self Evidence, curated by Larry Rinder, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA; Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, John Boskovich, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Heterodoxy, curated by Meg Cranston, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, among others. The artist directed two acclaimed films including North (starring Gary Indiana) and Without You I’m Nothing (starring Sandra Bernhard). John Boskovich is included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA LA), Los Angeles, CA.