Scroll is pleased to announce "Nowhere Still," a solo presentation of paintings by Andrew Gordon, opening Saturday, June 7.

Central to Gordon's practice is the "view from nowhere," where the artist removes the objective world rather than the subjective self, captured through intimate snapshots of atmospheric landscapes both familiar and ambiguous to the viewer. Juxtaposing a soft and hazy finish to compositions of stark geometric lines, Gordon's paintings serve as a window into one's view of the world, how it is framed, colored, and shaped.

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. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in the US.