John Houck

JOHN HOUCK, based in Los Angeles, is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in psychoanalytic theories of memory and the mind. These themes permeate both subject matter and process in his photography-based work. Central to Houck’s work is how shadows serve as signatures of both the condition and the limits of our experience. Houck recasts the shadow as a hinge of illusion and illumination, as the point at which what is real overlaps with what we can know and what we can imagine.

Sandpaper Letters, 2023
Oil on linen
83 x 63 inches

Courtesy of the ARTIST and CANDICE MADEY