Gallery With A Cause • Located in the New Mexico Cancer Center • Benefitting the NMCC Foundation
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Being born and raised in Albuquerque Jordan grew up in a trailer park, the middle child in a single parent home. He always had this weird feeling to not expect much from his life, he was content with simplicity and mundanity. As a kid he always had an affinity for making art. He liked painting and drawing and took various types of art classes through high school and college.
He remembers the day he was inspired to paint was when he first saw Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, his favorite painting. Hopper became the primary influence on Jordan’s painting style and subject matter. He connects with his beautiful and lonely depictions of the world and time Hopper grew up in. An equally great influence on Jordan’s work is music, particularly instrumentally jazz and certain rappers. Jazz invokes many feelings and moods such as sad, soothing, upbeat. The instrumental aspect creates a sense of introspection. Musical artists such as MF DOOM and Kill Bill the Rapper express the struggles of having an average or uneventful upbringing in the developed world today.
Jordan wants to paint modern landscapes -especially cityscapes- that depict the cold isolation and hidden beauty that he experiences every day. He prefers to use oil paint, as well as building and stretching his own canvases. His style could best be described as Expressive Realism by using saturated colors, thick/liquid-like textures, and realistic lighting. He wants for the viewer to take away the momentary appreciation of their surroundings.