Rakish Light agent

Rakish Light is the two-person collaborative practice of Brian O’Connell and Deirdre O’Dwyer, founded in Los Angeles in 2016 as an artist-run experimental publishing and object-based practice. It joins O’Connell’s work in sculpture, installation, and alternative photographic processes with O’Dwyer’s in painting and book-making, and serves as a platform for collaboration with other artists, writers, and thinkers. We conceived it around pursuing photo-lithographic processes under the bright Los Angeles sun, and it has grown into a press shaped by changing sites and conditions; for us, technical experimentation always means building or adapting the tool — a camera, a printing press — as part of making the work. Artists’ books, print editions, photography, digital video, exhibitions, and collaborative projects are where ideas get tested, revised, and circulated; at the center is the book, treated as both an object and a node of inquiry that can hold layered, gradually revealed meaning. Our recurring concerns are systems of representation and lived experience; patterns of signaling and communication; and landscape as a constructed condition of mobility and stasis.