The Green Line is Daniel Gordon’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, presented by M+B Gallery. The exhibition title is a nod to Matisse’s well-known 1905 portrait of the artist’s wife and is visually referenced in several of Gordon’s works. In Gordon’s practice, the artist culls photographic images from the Internet, prints them out and uses them to build three-dimensional tableaus. He then photographs these tableaus with an 8 x 10 inch view camera. Afterward, the sculptures are dismantled, though their various éléments -body parts, colors, background patterns- are often reused to make new works. Gordon’s melding together of fragmented parts form a dislocated reality where different perspectives, profiles and people merge into an incongruous whole. Through the process of slicing, cutting, gluing, staging, arranging and recycling, Gordon executes a shift from digital to analogue -almost as though he were engaged in a physical form of Photoshop- and challenges the stability of the fixed image, opening up the possibility for new meanings to emerge. This unique handling of the photographic medium connects Gordon with the history of collage and painting. In conjunction with the exhibition, Mörel has published Gordon’s second monograph titled Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts.
Born in 1980, Daniel Gordon was included in the New Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2009, and in 2010 his work was featured in Greater New York at MoMA P.S. 1. Solo exhibitions include Zach Feuer Gallery, Wallspace, and Leo Koenig Inc. in New York City and Claudia Groeflin Gallery in Zurich.
BOOK
Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts
Essay by Eva Respini
Publisher : Mörel
Publication date : May 2013
EXHIBITION
The Green Line
May 18 – June 29, 2013
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, California 90069
USA
Artist’s Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 6 – 8pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm, and by appointment
