Daniel Terna & Evan Whale at LY

Artists: Daniel Terna, Evan Whale

Venue: LY, Los Angeles, US

Date: March 23 – May 11, 2019

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and LY, Los Angeles

LY is pleased to present Daniel Terna & Evan Whale, opening March 22, 2019 at 1501 S. Alameda Street, Suite D. This is the second exhibition for the newly opened art gallery in Downtown Los Angeles. There will be an opening reception on Friday, March 22, 5-8 pm.

Daniel Terna and Evan Whale use the medium of photography to uncover the aura of overlooked physical and social landscapes. Both artists present new bodies of work that, through layering and masking, expose the spirit of private relationships and public life, thereby challenging our perceptions of these.

Daniel Terna will show photographs taken in various locations from Hong Kong, Bangkok, Tokyo, to Los Angeles. Mixing the language of documentary and commercial photography, in addition to surveillance imagery, Terna creates photographs that evoke a sense of haunting neglect in public spaces. Architectural layers, barriers, or items blocked by compositional framing allegorize all that we fail to see, by choice or perspective.

Evan Whale presents for the first time a series of works that dissolve the distinction between photography and painting. Stacked Photoshop and pastel layers transform figures in a California hot spring and their surrounding environments into swaths of color that appear as part aura photograph, part Bonnard painting. By covering his subjects, Whale captures the exuberance of friendship on a general scale, without narrative specificity.

Daniel Terna (b. 1987, Brooklyn, NY) is a Brooklyn-based artist working with photography and video. He has participated in select group exhibitions at Jack Barrett (New York, NY); Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY); Galeria Breve (Mexico City, MX); Foley Gallery (New York, NY); MoMA PS1 (New York, NY); Baxter St. Camera Club of NY (New York, NY); the International Center of Photography (New York, NY); New Wight Biennial (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA); Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA); Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA); and Gallery Tayuta (Tokyo, JP). Terna was a resident in the Collaborative Fellowship Program at UnionDocs, Brooklyn, and was awarded the Cuts and Burns Residency at Outpost Artist Resources in Ridgewood, NY. His work has been featured in Still Magazine, The New York Times, Dazed, Oxford American, Conveyor Magazine, Aint Bad Magazine, and Slate. Terna graduated with a BA in photography from Bard College and received his MFA from the International Center of Photography-Bard. In conjunction to his work as an artist, Terna is a Director at 321 Gallery, an artist-run gallery space in Brooklyn that he founded in 2012.

Evan Whale (b. 1987, Washington, DC) is an LA-based artist working in photography and painting. Whale received his BA from Bard College in 2009, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2014. Whale’s most recent group exhibitions have been at Regen Projects (LA); the FLAG Art Foundation (NY), and Diane Rosenstein Gallery (LA), and has exhibited internationally at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, both in Salzburg, Austria, and Paris Pantin, France. Whale has had four solo shows, most recently at Actual Size LA in 2017 and has a forthcoming show at Last Resort Gallery in Copenhagen, DE.

Daniel Terna, Evan Whale, 2019, exhibition view, LY, Los Angeles

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Bus Window), Kyoto, Japan, 2017, Chromira print, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Horse Head), Hong Kong, 2016, Chromira print, Unframed: 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm), Framed: 15 7/8 x 12 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (40.3 x 32.1 x 3.5 cm)

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Dog Head), Hong Kong, 2016, Chromira print, Unframed: 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm), Framed: 15 7/8 x 12 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (40.3 x 32.1 x 3.5 cm)

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Hong Kong Hotel), Wan Chai, Hong Kong, 2016, Chromira print, 40 x 26 ½ inches (101.6 x 67.3 cm)

Daniel Terna, 2019, exhibition view, LY, Los Angeles

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Shibuya II), Tokyo, Japan, 2017, Chromira print, Unframed: 14 x 9 1/3 inches (35.6 x 23.6 cm), Framed: 15 ¾ x 12 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (40 x 32.1 x 3.5 cm)

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Shibuya I), Tokyo, Japan, 2017, Chromira print, Unframed: 14 x 9 1/3 inches (35.6 x 23.6 cm), Framed: 15 ¾ x 12 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (40 x 32.1 x 3.5 cm)

Daniel Terna, Untitled (Shibuya III), Tokyo, Japan, 2017, Chromira print, Unframed: 14 x 9 1/3 inches (35.6 x 23.6 cm), Framed: 15 ¾ x 12 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (40 x 32.1 x 3.5 cm)

Daniel Terna, 2019, exhibition view, LY, Los Angeles

Daniel Terna, Orange II, December 31, 2017, Huntington Beach, CA, 2018, Chromira print, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Daniel Terna, Orange I, December 31, 2017, Huntington Beach, CA, 2018, Chromira print, 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)