Patrick Gordon "Paper or Plastic? Secrets From Tornado Alley"

Fischbach Gallery

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“If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like a flower is small. So I said to myself—I’ll paint what I see—what the flower looks like to me but I’ll paint it big and will be surprised into taking time to look at it” Georgia O’Keeffe 1939.

Like O’Keefe and other contemporary painters, Patrick Gordon renders his flowers larger than life taking great pleasure in their regal colors, velvety petals, sensual forms, and undercurrents of eros. Rather than painting individual flowers, Gordon paints bouquets which are clearly decorative arrangements far removed from their natural habitats. Through the art of representation they become twice removed and enhanced. The majority of the pieces in Paper or Plastic? Secrets From Tornado Alley are multi-paneled. They are divided into diptychs and triptychs, but the images are never broken or compartmentalized. The impetus behind these divisions has more to do with personal references than esthetic or formal factors. All are bursting forward with vibrant colors. Growing up in Claremore, Oklahoma, Gordon also incorporates his intense childhood memories of tornados.

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from October 13, 2011 to November 12, 2011

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Patrick Gordon

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