Andrew Gordon

Integral to Gordon’s work are the window paintings - grid compositions of frosted windows that reveal indiscernible landscapes, combining both a sense of domesticity and visceral atmosphere. As if standing from the artist’s perspective overlooking the serene outdoors, the view from the window suggests one’s inner state of mind – as Gordon notes, “eventually the details slip away, and what remains is the feeling.”

 

In “Nowhere Still,” Gordon presents a new exploration of desertscapes, capturing their sparse, quiet, and minimal terrain. Not interested in real specificity of a particular place, Gordon looks to photographs and varying source imagery – built layer upon layer to achieve the paintings’ smooth, soft surfaces, Gordon distills the desert elements down to the final compositions that are neither here nor there.  

 

Andrew Gordon was born in Cambridge, England and currently lives and works Austin, Texas. He studied at Pomona College and Brandeis University before receiving his MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Gordon has exhibited with The Shop House, Hong Kong; Annarumma Gallery, Naples; and My Pet Ram, New York, among others.