SEASONS
Seasons is an artist-run contemporary photography gallery started in 2024 in Los Angeles, California. It is currently located in Chinatown at 422 Ord St on the 2nd Floor.
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Seasons 02: John Lehr
The Last Things
05/17-06/14 2025
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John LehrPress Release
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” (W. B. Yeats, Anima Hominis, sect. 5.)
John Lehr’s exhibition presents a selection of photographs from his series The Last Things. The work in this series depicts the artifacts of an American archeological present: vernacular forms of architecture, signage, images, and objects that were hastily made in a rush for attention, or abandoned in place after their usefulness had expired. In his work the didacticism of public discourse becomes a springboard for uncovering the complexity and nuance of personal expression.
Lehrs works often position the language of capitalism as a form of public address. Words and images repeat and contradict, reflecting emphatic pleas and shifting priorities. Flaking paint morphs into JPEG vinyl printouts and LED displays, blurring the line between commercial speech and individual thought. The selection of works in this exhibition depict image objects in the world that appear to have been dismantled as they were being observed, and re appear in fragmentary new forms. Lehrs method of depiction fuses these incidents of accrual and erasure and holds them in a vivid suspended state. Embedded in the work is a belief in the power and absurdity of objects that bear the traces of collective experience.
Bio
John Lehr (USA, b. 1975 in Baltimore, MD) graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD, 1995) and received his MFA in photography from Yale University (New Haven, CT, 2005). Lehr’s work has been exhibited at venues including The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY; The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; the Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ; the Yale Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT. His photographs are held in numerous public collections including The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; the Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; the Yale University Library, New Haven CT; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. He has produced four monographs: “El Camino Real”, (2018), published by Roman Nvmerals, “The Island Position”, (2019), published by MACK, “Remote Sensing” (2024), published by Georgetown University, and “The Last Things” (2024), published by TBW Books. Lehr currently lives and works in Elkins Park, PA.