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Jordan Wolfson: New Work

May 15, 2008- June 14, 2008

Reception: May 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jordan Wolfson

DFN Gallery

210 11th Ave

DFN Gallery is proud to present New Work by Jordan Wolfson, featuring multiple canvas oil paintings and drawings. Working within the tradition of still life studio painting, Wolfson focuses not on the objects which occupy a room but on the spaces between them. Atmosphere become the subject matter and how light fills an empty space.

By using diptychs and triptychs Wolfson reveals his thought process of deconstructing interior spaces to uncover the difference between an object’s mass and it presence. Wolfson states he is “in a three-way dialogue, between the piece of the world that he is observing, his inner subjective response, and the accretion of marks…” His Interior with Figure in Three States is reminiscent of Giacometti’s skeletal drawings. The linear qualities and swift hatching strokes of paint of this piece create a charged atmosphere.

In Still Life with Flowers II Wolfson focuses on the figure/ground relationship of a single flower arrangement placed against a minimal background. Wolfson’s deft touch and love of paint is revealed in this deceptively simple composition. Lusciously applied wet into wet paint creates luminosity throughout his deconstructed subject and setting.

Wolfson is a native of Southern California. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in Fine Art, he received his MFA from Yale University. He has had multiple solo exhibitions in Israel and has shown with Hischler and Adler, NYC. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. His work is included in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY; the Omanut La'am (Art for the People), in Jerusalem, Israel; and The Ballinglen Archive in Ballycastle, Ireland.

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