Daniel Gordon: Free Transform
Past exhibition
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Daniel Gordon: Free Transform presents a new series of richly-detailed, large-scale photographic prints alongside the debut of the artist’s three-dimensional vessel sculptures. Spanning the exhibition is the seven-panel Panoramic Still Life (2023), which extends 23 feet in width and functions as a single site-specific installation while allowing for its alternate presentation in individual works or groupings. Pushing the limits of both scale and dimensionality, Gordon expands the viewer’s visual experience to allow for an immersive ambulatory exploration of the exhibition space and, by extension, his constructed universe. As his subjects and objects glitch through multiple mediums, Gordon occasions a slippage that speaks to the camera’s capability to transform as well as document.
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Gordon's continually evolving practice is stimulated by both self-imposed structural and compositional challenges as well as developments in available technologies. His process begins with the collection of found imagery from stock, product, and archival sources, or by taking his own photographs. He then reproduces these images with an inkjet printer before adhering them onto volumetric structures that mimic the original subject's form and scale. Prioritizing form, color, and surface texture, Gordon arranges his tableaux-described by curator Susan Thompson as "assemblages of image-objects"-and photographs them from a single, frontal vantage point.
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"Vibrant and dazzling, Daniel Gordon’s works not only vividly reinterpret the still life painting genre of Western art but also blur the boundaries between photography, painting and sculpture.” —Giovanni Aloi
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The sculptural works presented in Free Transform differ in scale from their vessel-like cousins, which comparatively are one-sided and produced solely for depiction within his photographic tableaux. These, then, are also his first sculptural creations designed for viewing in the round—an image that has jumped from the page. By bringing photography and sculpture together in the exhibition space, Gordon emphasizes the translation inherent in his practice—how a subject is essentially changed when moved through systems of reproduction and reconstitution. Or, as Thompson goes on to say in her recent essay on the artist’s work, “Gordon’s unselfconscious engagement with the readymade archive that is the internet reflects a contemporary visual landscape in which images have become symbiotic with, rather than merely symbolic of, the physical world."
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