Seasons is an artist-run contemporary photography gallery started in 2024 in Los Angeles, California. It is currently located at 422 Ord St on the 2nd Floor in Chinatown.
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Seasons is an artist-run contemporary photography gallery started in 2024 in Los Angeles, California. It is currently located at 422 Ord St on the 2nd Floor in Chinatown.
For more information contact
info@seasons-la.com or visit our instagram.
The Last Things
05/17-06/14 2025
John Lehr
“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 positions 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.