{"id":2462,"date":"2012-06-15T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/06\/15\/tools\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:52:09","slug":"tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/tools","title":{"rendered":"TOOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhen ancient tools, with their simplified, hand-wrought shapes, are placed alongside modern tools, with their streamlined industrialized designs, the imagination conjures up&nbsp;improbable&nbsp;hybrids. Ben Jackel\u2019s gigantic redwood and graphite \u2018Down to the Bone\u2019 blade speaks eloquently of this rupture and fusion as it sits alongside Autry National Museum of the West Collections.\"&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O'Brian, John. \"Tools.\"&nbsp;<em>Exhibition Catalogue.&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;Art Center College of Design: 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-63.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-63.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-63-213x300.jpeg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Jackel, <em>Down to the Bone<\/em>, 2008-2009 (redwood and graphite)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See Jackel\u2019s axe&nbsp;wielding&nbsp;process in the studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=4ORR736tWw8#!\">via the following video<\/a>. More works by Jackel on display <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=724\">now at L.A. Louver<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-62.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-62.jpeg 499w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image-62-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom LaDuke, <em>Untitled Self-Portrait<\/em>, 2007 (clay and epoxy)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(LaDuke was included in L.A. Louver group exhibitions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/roguewaveprojects\/html\/rogue_wave_07.html\">Rogue Wave 2007<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/exhibition.cfm?tExhibition_id=677\">Loose Canon, 2011<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen ancient tools, with their simplified, hand-wrought shapes, are placed alongside modern tools, with their streamlined industrialized designs, the imagination conjures up&nbsp;improbable&nbsp;hybrids. Ben Jackel\u2019s gigantic redwood and graphite \u2018Down to the Bone\u2019 blade speaks eloquently of this rupture and fusion as it sits alongside Autry National Museum of the West Collections.&#8221;&nbsp; O&#8217;Brian, John. &#8220;Tools.&#8221;&nbsp;Exhibition Catalogue.&nbsp;&nbsp;Art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,1481,1485,1486],"class_list":["post-2462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ben-jackel","tag-fathers-day","tag-jackel","tag-tools"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>TOOLS - L.A. 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