"In her hyperrealistic paintings, Gordon often renders her own likeness, conveying the self and its many guises through translucent layers of oils in electric hues. Executed with technical precision, the artist's visceral compositions treat her own corporeal form as an unorthodox avatar that communicates subjective, psychological experience. Gordon lets her surreal narratives unfold intuitively on the canvas, depicting bodies in sometimes absurd scenarios or disorienting spatial compositions and portraying faces that translate a range of feelings."
"In illuminating detail, she reimagines fragments extracted from her inner life while boldly envisioning worlds within worlds that bear uncanny resemblance to our own. Complicating the genre of self-portraiture and engaging the canon of art history, her work expresses multiple psychic registers at once, addressing viewers with a candor that is both familiar and unsettling in its intimacy.Encompassing a full narrative, the paintings in Haze pit Gordon's alter ego against three antagonists in a horror plot that uncovers the artist's disparate yet interlocking personas."
Sasha Gordon produces hyperrealistic paintings that frequently render her own likeness with translucent oil layers in vivid, electric hues. The works treat the body as an avatar communicating subjective and psychological experience through technically precise, visceral compositions. Surreal narratives unfold intuitively, depicting bodies in absurd scenarios, disorienting spaces, and faces conveying varied emotions. The Haze cycle stages a horror-like narrative pitting the artist's alter ego against three antagonists, revealing disparate but interlocking personas. Sources include classical mythology, contemporary East Asian cinema, and personal visions and memories. Themes of ambiguity, confusion, memory, and reconciling multiple selves permeate the paintings.
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