Clear Creek 1. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 31 x 25”. 2018
Clear Creek 2. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 31 x 25”. 2018
Clear Creek 3. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 25 x 31”. 2018
Clear Creek 4. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 31 x 25”. 2018
Clear Creek 1 detail
Clear Creek 5. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 61 x 41”. 2018
Renaissance Technologies. Oil on canvas in artist frame. 73 x 85”. 2018
Renaissance Technologies detail
Arcadia. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 25 x 31”. 2018
Redlands. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 25 x 31”. 2018
Kettleman. Oil on muslin in artist frame. 25 x 31”. 2018
Redlands detail
Kettleman detail
Brentwood. Oil on canvas in a artist frame. 79 x 54” 2018
Brentwood detail
Untitled California Landscape. Oil on muslin in artist's frame. 23 x 29". 2017
Untitled California Landscape detail
Untitled California Landscape 2 oil on muslin in artist frame 23" x 29" 2017
Carbon Canyon 22 oil on muslin in artist frame 23" x 29" 2017
Carbon Canyon 22 oil on muslin in artist frame 31 x 25" 2017
Carbon Canyon 19 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Carbon Canyon 20 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Carbon Canyon 18 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Carbon Canyon (campus) oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Keys View 2 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Carbon Canyon 15 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Nopales oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Nopales 2 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2017
Carbon Canyon 8 oil on muslin in artist frame 79 x 53" 2016
Carbon Canyon 1 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2016
Carbon Canyon 2 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2016
Carbon Canyon 3 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2016
Carbon Canyon 4 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2016
Particulate Matter 50 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2016
Particulate Matter 47 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2015
Particulate Matter 46 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2015
Particulate Matter 17 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2013
Particulate Matter 41 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2015
Particulate Matter 39 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2015
Particulate Matter 44 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2015
Suppression 3 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2014
Suppression 6 oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2015
Suppression 1 oil on muslin in artist frame 61 x 41" 2014
Trail Head Lot oil on muslin in artist frame 19 x 15" 2014
Carbon Canyon installation at ltd Los Angeles, June, 2016
Los Angeles diptych. oil on canvas in artist frames. 19 x 30" 2014
Cow Pasture diptych oil on canvas in artist frames 31 x 50" 2013-2016
Idaho Falls acrylic on panel 36 x 36". 2006
Lake Chambers acrylic on panel, 48 x 48" 2006
Vacaville acrylic on panel 36 x 36". 2006
Think Tank acrylic on panel 24 x 24". 2006
Rome acrylic on panel 24 x 24". 2008
Sonoma acrylic on panel 36 x 36". 2008
Strip Mall Karate acrylic on canvas 36 x 36". 2009
Kensett acrylic on canvas 36 x 36" 2009
Video Stores: 9 Examples, 1987-2001 acrylic on panels, 76" x 76" 2005
Branches (Chase Bank) acrylic on panels, 76" x 76" 2016
Summer of '87 Acrylic and oil on canvas. 21 x 21" 2007-2016
Facade (AMC) Oil on canvas 25 x 31" 2013
Facade (Consolidated Ball Bearings) Oil on canvas 16 x 20" 2012
Facade (Toys R Us) Oil on canvas 16 x 20" 2012
Facade (Don Juan O'Hanohans) Oil on canvas 16 x 20" 2012
Facade (Garden Grove) oil on canvas 20 x 20" 2013-2016
Campus acrylic on canvas 48 x 48" 2008
Track and Field acrylic on canvas 48 x 48" 2008
Crematory acrylic on canvas 48 x 48" 2008
Matinee acrylic on canvas 48 x 48" 2009
SkyBox acrylic on canvas 72 x 72" 2009
Whales? oil and acrylic on canvas 30 x 36" 2009
Small Town In-Ground acrylic on canvas 24 x 24" 2008
Hanover acrylic on canvas 20 x 20" 2007
Sacramento acrylic on canvas 24 x 24" 2008
Dealer acrylic on canvas 36 x 36" 2008
Sunday School acrylic on canvas 48 x 48" 2007
Aspens acrylic on canvas 72 x 72" 2009
Corridor oil on canvas 22 x 22" 2011
Primordial Valley oil on canvas 40 x 48" 2011
Valley 2 oil on canvas 18 x 24" 2011
Valley 3 oil on canvas 18 x 24" 2011
Fronds oil on canvas 20 x 16" 2011
Hedge oil on canvas 18 x 24" 2011
Woods oil on canvas 30 x 36" 2011
Darlington oil on canvas 30 x 36" 2011
Fair Oaks oil on canvas 22 x 24" 2003
Installation view landscapes at Crisp Ellert Museum
Installation view landscapes at Crisp Ellert Museum
Published by The Ice Plant, Los Angeles, 2018.
80 pages / 11.5 x 10 in. / Hardcover
59 color photographs
ISBN 978-0-9992655-2-9
Edition of 700 copies
From 2008 to 2012, often in the dead of summer, American painter Jake Longstreth (born 1977) photographed the dusty, utilitarian Central Valley of California, a severe inland topography formerly occupied by the massive Tulare Lake. With a tonal restraint echoing the style of his own flatly realistic paintings, Longstreth’s photographs capture the hazy, blinding sunlight and muted palette of this region, a topography that has been transformed from a lush, wild terrain—celebrated by John Muir in 1868 as “one smooth, continuous bed of honey-bloom”—into the monotonously fertile industrial farmland it is today. “Millions of people pass over the dry lake-bed in their cars every year, unaware of its previous existence,” Longstreth notes with ambivalent fascination. “A Taco Bell now stands roughly where the shores of Tulare Lake once were.”
Instagram: @streth Email: jake.longstreth@gmail.com
