"The distinction between abstraction and representation is not so important to me. I am more interested in trying to make convincing pictures, and for me, a big part a photograph’s quality has to do with its inner conflict, or the conflict it creates."
– Daniel Gordon
Available Works
Daniel Gordon
Light Study (Carafe with Glassware and Knife), 2025
Daniel Gordon
Light Study (Three Glasses and Two Forks), 2025
Daniel Gordon
Caladium with Glass Vessels and Artichokes, 2023
Daniel Gordon
Artichokes and Succulents, 2023
Daniel Gordon
Artichokes and Peonies with Green Pitcher, 2023
Daniel Gordon
Lobster and Fern with Green Artichoke, 2023
Daniel Gordon
Ponytail Palm and Pitcher, 2023
Daniel Gordon
Onions and Artichokes, 2023
Daniel Gordon
Blue Apples and Houseplant, 2022
Daniel Gordon
Two Peaches and Three Vessels, 2022
Daniel Gordon
Two Peaches and Three Vessels, 2022
Daniel Gordon
Green Jade and Roses, 2022
Daniel Gordon
Apples and Watermelon in Green, 2022
Daniel Gordon
Portrait in Green, 2022
Daniel Gordon
Peonies and Pomegranate, 2020
Daniel Gordon
Olives and Pitcher with Fern and Palm Leaves, 2020
Moving between two and three-dimensions, Daniel Gordon’s practice appropriates images of still-life subjects he finds on the Internet. Printing the images on paper before cutting them out, he then assembles a three-dimensional tableau in the studio which is subsequently photographed, linking handmade and digital-based processes and materials. Gordon’s work transforms the quotidian: tennis rackets and trainers hint at the routine of exercise, and are paired with other accoutrements of daily life including batteries and cutlery. Gordon converts his downloaded imagery from immaterial data to material objects and back again. In doing so, his work points to the proliferation of imagery and photographic representation and suggests that these have become symbiotic with, rather than symbolic of, the physical world.
Daniel Gordon was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1980. He received a BA from Bard College, New York in 2003 before graduating with an MFA from Yale University in 2006. Gordon’s work has been published in numerous monographs and he has been exhibited internationally in major art institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Pier 24, San Francisco and Foam Museum, Amsterdam among others.
Gordon lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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