Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form
It captures an accumulation of marks made by the artist by literally tipping over from her balance point on repeat towards the drawing surface while letting the pencils and an eraser in her hand leave marks
This etching refers to a Steamboat Springs
it pays homage to the graphic style of album covers
and the process of metamorphosis beneath the surface
Today Jo Hummel Each work in the seriesDana Gordons kaleidoscopic compositions are contemplative and evoke somewhat Orphic Cubism. His paintings have an overwhelming presence with their colour and structure, where gestural curves, unconstrained small pattern and form play together. Gordon is interested in the visual conversation between colours, shapes and lines, looking for the tension between the shape and the grid. He thinks of the shapes, adjoining shapes, and clusters of shapes as