Daniel Gordon pays tribute to Matisse with a modern-day approach to portraiture:
To create each piece, Gordon sorts through photographic images found on the Internet, prints them, and builds 3-D tableaux he then shoots with an 8×10 view camera. He said he is inspired by not only Matisse’s art but also his philosophies. “I’m interested in taking ideas that were radical in Matisse’s day (collapsing space through the blending of foreground and background, multiple angles viewed at the same time, and Fauvist color and expression, among others) and moving them into a contemporary photographic space,” Gordon wrote via email. “I suppose it’s a kind of physical version of Photoshop that’s playing with a big history and multiple mediums.”
(Image: Crescent Eyed Portrait (in Blue), 2013, Daniel Gordon. From Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts by Daniel Gordon, Mörel Books, 2013. Courtesy of the artist. Gordon’s show at M+B runs through June 29.)
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