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Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon, Enters Thief, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Enters Thief, 2021

Installation view

Sasha Gordon Mirror, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Mirror, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
12 x 9 in
30.5 x 22.9 cm
Framed:
15 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/2 in
40 x 32.4 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon, Untitled, 2020

Sasha Gordon

Untitled, 2020

Color pencil on paper

14 x 11 in

35.6 x 27.9 cm

Framed: 15 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/2 in

40 x 32.4 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon, Mirror, 2021

Sasha Gordon

Mirror, 2021

Silkscreen print

18 x 14 in

45.7 x 35.6 cm

Edition of 45

Sasha Gordon Muse I, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Muse I, 2021
Oil on panel
12 x 12 x 1 1/2 in
30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Muse II, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Muse II, 2021
Oil on panel
12 x 12 x 1 1/2 in
30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Muse III, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Muse III, 2021
Oil on panel
12 x 12 x 1 1/2 in
30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Garden Troll, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Garden Troll, 2021
Oil on canvas
55 1/2 x 31 1/4 x 1 1/2 in
141 x 79.4 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Sore Loser, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Sore Loser, 2021
Oil, molding paste, glass beads, pumice on canvas
Overall:

72 x 120 x 1 1/2 in

182.9 x 304.8 x 3.8 cm
2 panels, each:

72 x 60 x 1 1/2 in

182.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Widow, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Widow, 2021
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 x 1 1/2 in
152.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Seductress, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Seductress, 2021
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 x 1 in
101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm

Sasha Gordon Concert Mistress, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Concert Mistress, 2021
Oil on canvas
72 x 48 x 2 1/4 in
182.9 x 121.9 x 5.7 cm

Sasha Gordon Campfire, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Campfire, 2021
Oil on canvas
64 x 113 1/2 x 1 1/2 in
162.6 x 288.3 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon The Archer, 2021

Sasha Gordon
The Archer, 2021
Oil on canvas
Diptych, each canvas:
72 x 36 in
182.9 x 91.4 cm

Sasha Gordon The Archer, 2021

Sasha Gordon
The Archer, 2021
Detail

Sasha Gordon Pond lovers, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Pond lovers, 2021
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in
40.6 x 50.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Mimesis, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Mimesis, 2021
Colored pencil on paper
6 1/2 x 10 in
16.5 x 25.4 cm
Framed:
11 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 1 1/2 in
29.8 x 21 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Empath, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Empath, 2021
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 x 1 in
61 x 45.7 x 2.5 cm

Sasha Gordon Untitled, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Untitled, 2021
Oil on canvas
12 x 12 x 1 1/2 in
30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm

Sasha Gordon Outlet Licker, 2021

Sasha Gordon
Outlet Licker, 2021
Oil on molding paste primed canvas
12 x 12 x 1 1/2 in
30.5 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm

Press Release

Sasha Gordon’s first solo exhibition, Enters Thief illustrates suburban vignettes staged on the precipice of reality. Suspended between the everyday and sublime, Gordon’s scenarios are populated by self portrait-style characters who share a utopian camaraderie, but maintain a subtle hierarchy.

The subject's varied personalities, constructed in the artist’s own image, reenact scenarios that could have taken place during her childhood: a tennis match, campfire, and something as banal as a shower. While the subjects activate private moments, their direct gaze invites the audience to to disrupt and engage with these different versions of the artist, and a universe of similar identities from another world.

The character of the Thief is played by the viewer whose participation is contingent on their identity, experience, and moral conditioning. Some of the characters also play the role of Thief; whether they are hogging the spotlight, being a nuisance, or presumed passive bystanders. Gordon too identifies as the Thief. As a larger-bodied Asian woman, the artist’s adolescence was hindered by a traumatic denial of self. Making up for it now, this work rewrites memories and reclaims consciousness by contending with the presence of dysmorphia around psychological and physical identity.

Gordon’s portrayal of reimagined memories or dreams fills up the senses. The compositions engage high-key colors, slow gradients, sheathing objects, and exaggerated space to maintain an atmosphere of surrealness and vulnerability. Her acute technical handling of oil paint and color pencil are used to investigate every facet of a composition and capture every detail of a subject. Focused portraits are meditative and emphasize the slights of expression while maintaining integrity of the character.

The vibrancy and obsessive attention to detail in Gordon’s practice are reflective of hyperawareness—a symptom of the artist’s dysmorphia. The work’s presentation of Asian characters with implied familial relationships and larger bodies reclaim representations that have historically been ignored or considered unacceptable in American culture.

As a biracial East Asian person growing up in a predominantly conservative white suburban environment, the lack of cultural and media representation in a place considered home was disorienting, and forced the artist to contend with her identity as Other. The occupation of East Asian female bodies across the artists' works contens with, and aims to relieve, the effects of past psychological conditioning.

Enters Thief is Sasha Gordon’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Sasha Gordon (b. 1998, Bronx) lives and works in Westchester, NY and Providence, RI where she is currently a painting major at The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Her work explores self image, racial prejudice, mental illness, and the male gaze, while also exhibiting discomfort with intimacy and the female body. Recent group exhibitions include Big Painting, Patrick Parrish, New York (2019); Night and Day, Thierry Goldberg, New York (2019); and Nostos, Matthew Brown Los Angeles (2019).