Lori Gordon |I Cheese
Sandwich You | cheese sandwiches [2007]
A
hug held for an hour. A ticket to redeem an embrace. Untrained,
free aura paintings in the park. Messages to the world (Thank you
world). Lori Gordon’s work explores the possibilities presented
by the faith of even the self-professed faithless, and oftentimes
places her in the center as catalyst. Gordon’s two pieces
for the New York-based You Can Have It All, Ask Russ,
in which viewers are invited to ask the artist’s dad any factual
question via email, and I Cheese Sandwich You, which questions
the ways we have to express our attachments to those we love, propose
modes of communication and trust that are at first glance seemingly
unconventional. With a moment or two of consideration, however,
Gordon’s schemes are revealed as helpful invitations to what
we already hope to do: ask that thing we’ve been dying to
know and find a way to make sense of love, even in its intangibility.
Exhibition
Text: Shana Agid
Lori
Gordon | Ask Russ
| postcard [2007]
Lori
Gordon is a San Francisco-based artist, and founder of You Can
Have It All. She received her MFA at the California College
of the Arts. Receipient of the San Francisco Foundation Murphy Cadogan
Fellowship Award, Gordon has shown her work at Bay Area locations
including the Richmond Arts Center, New Langton Arts, Playspace
Gallery, Mission17 and Southern Exposure.
Her
work investigates the structure and power of belief. By creating
projects that question the reductive notion that a person can exist
in the world without faith, she is demonstrating in the process
that art itself cannot function without the willing participation
of a faithful audience. She is deciphering both humanity’s
and her own connection with the universe. She is exploring the gap
between coincidence and intention, with an emphasis on presenting
moments that deviate from the expected. She is attempting to make
the ineffable visible.
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