Huxley-Parlour is delighted to announce Objects at Hand, New York-based artist Daniel Gordon’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Presenting twenty-five works from his ongoing series, Light Study, the exhibition represents a radical departure in Gordon’s practice, working in black and white for the first time, and narrowing his focus through a refinement of his compositions. Patterned backdrops and abundant tableaux give way to sparser observations of light and shadow and the study of singular objects and motifs, from electrical wires, to pencils, and pairs of reading glasses.
Employing the language of the still-life genre, Gordon updates the references of seventeenth century Dutch still-life with symbols of contemporary life: paper plates, mechanical pencils and plastic holders. His black and white photographs speak more directly to the history of the medium itself; the playful radicalism of early twentieth-century avant-garde artists such as László Moholy-Nagy, the modernist principles of André Kertész, and even the Pop Art of Meret Oppenheimer. Gordon is uninterested in the objects in and of themselves, instead using them as a vehicle for formalist experimentation.