Artist Talk: Jake Longstreth

The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College will showcase the work of Los Angeles-based artist Jake Longstreth in an exhibition titled “Pastures and Parking Lots: Outtakes and Other Rarities, 2003-2016.”

Longstreth will give a presentation on Friday, Jan. 13 at 4 p.m. in the college’s “Jay’s Place” of the Ringhaver Student Center, and a reception in the museum will follow, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

The artist has drawn inspiration from the “non-place of American capitalism,” including video stores, fast casual dining establishments, big box retailers, and parking lots, along with the atmospheric Southern Californian landscape.

The works on view will also emphasize Longstreth’s more visionary treatment of the Southern Californian landscape. These paintings offer a further subjective, inner perspective that has been an understated, yet consistent theme throughout the artists’ oeuvre.