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Artworks
Saw Tornadoes Covered With Flames, 2023
Hand-Embroidered Cotton on Cotton38 3/4 x 109 3/4 in
98.3 x 278.6 cm
Framed 39 1/4 x 110 1/4 in.SoldFurther images
Nassar collaborated with craftswomen living and working in Ramallah to create monumental, multi-panel embroideries inspired by paired elemental forces: earth/water and fire/air. The craftswomen lay the foundations of his panoramas...Nassar collaborated with craftswomen living and working in Ramallah to create monumental, multi-panel embroideries inspired by paired elemental forces: earth/water and fire/air. The craftswomen lay the foundations of his panoramas and Nassar then embroiders multicolored landscapes within their intricate geometric grids; creating a dialogue through an exchange of visual ideas. Nassar has doubled the size of his past work to create these four-panel works, each with a patterned border that contains sections of a continuous landscape.
In "Saw Tornadoes Covered With Flames", the landscape mirrors fire, the element that inspired the work. Blue and red rolling hills are lit by a purple moon, cradling a lavender crescent at it's edge. Each vista functions as a window within a dense scrim of pattern, which obscures and reveals at turns.Exhibitions
Jordan Nassar, "I Cut The Sky In Two", 291 Grand Street, James Cohan, New York, October 23- Nov 21, 2020
Jordan Nassar, "The Field Is Infinite," KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, December 5, 2020 - April 4, 2021
