The artwork features a vibrant and playful composition, blending bold colors and distinctive shapes. The central focus is a pair of young, digitally-rendered figures engaged in a game with a tower of green blocks. The figures' faces are rendered with exaggerated and expressive features, evoking a sense of childlike wonder and imagination. The overall style combines elements of pop art, digital manipulation, and surrealistic elements, creating a visually striking and thought-provoking image. The artist's intention seems to explore themes of play, technology, and the interplay between the digital and physical realms in a contemporary, whimsical manner. ...
A manifestation of her identity as a biracial Asian woman and the societal pressures that this entails, Sasha Gordon’s striking, often unsettling paintings represent a hyper-awareness of one’s own body, with exaggerated, caricatured features and hyperbolic physicality. Despite these feelings of unease, the figures seem caught in moments of fragile happiness, fleeting stability, or momentary and blissful obliviousness. The characters Gordon portrays – some of whom clearly bear the physiognomic likeness of the artist – are bathed in colour and light that seems artificial, surreal. They are cast in blue moonlight or the purple hues of a dimly lit room, clustered-together figures who each carry the weight of their own story.
Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...
