NYAB Event - Daniel Gordon “Screen Selections and Still Lifes”

Daniel Gordon “Screen Selections and Still Lifes”

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The exhibition is comprised of two bodies of work, a new group of large-scale still lifes, the artist’s most ambitious and complex to date, and a new body of work, Screen Selections, which takes the textile-inspired backdrops Gordon uses in constructing his tableaux as a point of departure.

The still lifes on view compress a range of historical iconography into one cacophonous plane through a post-internet assemblage that includes analog and digital processes. Skulls, vases, fruit and vegetables are rendered in impossible perspective, made manifest through an obsessive culling and meticulous reconstructing of internet images. Here, Cubism, German Dadaism, Fauvism, Wiener Werkstaatte textiles and digital artifacts collide to form a vibrant surface, reverberating across time periods and styles.

While the still lifes are immersive and almost psychedelic in their optical density, the Screen Selections assert themselves as abstract compositions that appear divorced from time, place or context. In these works, Gordon selects sections from his constructed backgrounds and re-presents them as their own discrete, self-referential works. The patterning and colors that once framed objects within the compositions are now foregrounded and flattened out, reintroduced into the two-dimensional plane (i.e. screen) from which they were initially extracted.