CHRIS JORDAN (B. 1987)

is a multidisciplinary artist, architect and impressionist painter best known for his large scale portraiture. Born in Newark, NJ, he earned his BA from the Pratt Institute School of Architecture.

From a young age, Jordan developed an interest in portraiture and its connection with his environment and community. Jordan draws much of his inspiration from contemporary culture and artists such as Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley and Yayoi Kusama. Jordan combines a wide range of elements into his work. These items include abstracted portraiture of the black gaze, literature of the Harlem Renaissance, his battle with mental health, and the duality of being black & queer artist.

His series ‘Colored’, for example, is an ode to blackness and its constant dissection under the world’s stage. Jordan explicitly uses bell pepper noses, full almost swollen lips and piercing eyes in these works; features that are often frowned upon but are in turn used to express the plight and tumultuous history that is ‘blackness’.

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