Daniel Gordon - Still Life, Portraits & Parts

Daniel Gordon - Still Life, Portraits & Parts

Daniel Gordon - • Spoonbill Books

ISBN-10: 1907071407 · ISBN-13: 978‑1907071409 · 2010

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Collection of works exhibited from 2010-2011 at Wallspace Gallery. Scratches/corner wear on cover but paper stock is in great condition. " The exhibition includes photographs made over the last two years that fall into the three categories: still lifes, portraits, and “parts,” the latter referring to photographs that exist between landscape and abstraction, made using the constituent parts of other photographs. This mode of re-use is key to understanding Gordon’s process, in which he culls photographic images from the internet and uses them to build three-dimensional tableaus which he then photographs with an 8 x 10 view camera. After the photograph is taken, the sculptures are dismantled and the body parts and background patterns are reused in other artworks. Using a manual cut-and-paste technique, Gordon builds forms which expand upon the rich history of collage and appropriation, while also nodding to the long lineage of the painted portrait and still-life (Arcimboldo's heads, and Matisse's still-life arrangements come to mind). Gordon's melding together of fragmented parts and diverse histories form a dislocated reality, a contemporary portrait, where different perspectives, profiles, and people merge into one, incongruous whole."

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