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 "A Stream Is Singing Under The Youthful Grass," Nassar’s rolling green hills are stacked vertically and a peachy sky peeks out from the rectangles that house it. Nassar positioned the forms low to the ground, mirroring the elemental force that inspired the work. Each vista functions as a window within a dense scrim of pattern, which obscures and reveals at turns. The central mountainscape straddles two panels at the centerline, existing in both spaces at once.
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