i first saw chris jordan's work on, my friend, jeremy's computer. the photo was entitled, cell phones #2, atlanta 2005. (see above) it was part of "intolerable beauty: portraits of american mass consumption". so i decided to look into chris jordan... wow. his current exhibit is entitled "running the numbers: an american self-portrait". in chris' words, the new series "...looks at contemporary american culture throught the austere lens of statistics." he does this with "...large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs." did you know that in the year 2005, 2.3 million americans were incarcerated? here is a partial zoom of 2.3 million folded prison uniforms depicting that staggering number....
you know what they say about pictures and a thousand words? i think his equal about a billion.
i am glad he will be in l.a. later this year. go check it out if you can...
2007 exhibitions (directly from chrisjordan.com):
-Tufts University Art Gallery, "Altered States, Views of Transition in Recent Photography," curator Alicia Cornwell (currently showing);
-Texas State University Art Gallery, San Marcos TX, "Loyal Opposition" curator Mary Mikel Stump (Feb-March);
-2007 TED Conference, Monterey, CA
-North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Big Picture," curator Linda Dougherty (March-September);
-Natural World Museum, San Francisco, "Environmental Renaissance," curator Randy Rosenberg (April-June);
-Von Lintel Gallery, NY (solo show, June 14-July 30)
-Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (solo show, June 30-September);
-Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston ME, "Green Horizons" (June-December);
-Nobel Peace Center, Oslo Norway, "Envisioning Change" (June-Aug); Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (Sep-Dec);
-Boulder Museum of Art, “Weather Report”, curator Lucy Lippard (September-December).
