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JORDAN NASSAR, Cosmic Radar, 2023
JORDAN NASSAR, Cosmic Radar, 2023
JORDAN NASSAR, Cosmic Radar, 2023
JORDAN NASSAR, Cosmic Radar, 2023

Cosmic Radar, 2023

Hand-embroidered cotton on cotton
37 9/16 x 54 9/16 in
95.4 x 138.6 cm
Framed 38 1/16 x 55 1/16 in.
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Nassar has created a series of “split-screen” embroidered landscapes with shifting colorways. Tonal changes at the midpoint of the canvases interrupt the horizontality of the landscape, creating juxtapositions of color...
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Nassar has created a series of “split-screen” embroidered landscapes with shifting colorways. Tonal changes at the midpoint of the canvases interrupt the horizontality of the landscape, creating juxtapositions of color and form. These double compositions are a physical expression of what Nassar terms, “the dislocating experience of being in two places simultaneously.” Lines function as borders that bleed into each other, threaded across the field of the image. In "Cosmic Radar", a soft rolling red and yellow mountainscape sits in the center of two densely patterned panels.

Nassar frequently draws upon the connection between image-making and language. The inspiration for the title of the exhibition, as well as titles of the embroidered works on view, stems from the surreal poem The Arab Apocalypse, written by Lebanese-American artist and poet Etel Adnan in response to the outbreak of the Civil War in Lebanon. The embroideries themselves are hazy and dreamlike visualizations of Adnan's poetry.
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Exhibitions

Jordan Nassar, "I Cut The Sky In Two", 291 Grand Street, James Cohan, New York, October 23- Nov 21, 2020
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