SASHA GORDON
b. 1998Sasha Gordon was born in Somers, New York, in 1998. She received a BA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 2020. In her luminous and hyperrealistic paintings, Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision and rigor, the artist’s visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as a kind of unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience. Gordon lets her surreal narratives unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies in sometimes absurd, darkly humorous scenarios or disorienting spatial compositions and portraying faces that translate a range of feelings. In illuminating detail, she reimagines fragments extracted from her inner life while boldly envisioning worlds within worlds that bear uncanny resemblance to our own. Complicating the genre of self-portraiture and engaging the canon of art history, her work expresses multiple psychic registers at once, addressing viewers with a candor that is both familiar and unsettling in its intimacy.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, presented a solo exhibition of Gordon’s work titled _Surrogate Self i_n 2023. Other recent solo presentations featuring the artist’s work include The Flesh Disappears, But Continues to Ache, Steven Friedman Gallery, London (2023); Hands of Others, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2022); and Enters Thief, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021).
Her work has been included in group presentations including Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration, Jewish Museum, New York (2024), and Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegners Museum og Statuepark, Dronningmølle, Denmark (2022). Since 2023, a work by Gordon has been a part of Love Languages, a thematic collection display installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
In 2024, David Zwirner announced the representation of the artist in collaboration with Matthew Brown, New York and Los Angeles.
Gordon’s work is held in the Baltimore Museum of Art; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, California; Dallas Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The artist lives and works in New York.
Courtesy David Zwirner
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