This short film is a fascinating look at the way Brooklyn-based photo artist Daniel Gordon creates the elaborate, colorful, three-dimensional tableaux he constructs with images collected from the Internet. The video focuses on still lifes, created with analog techniques then finished digitally. A joy to watch, especially if you’re interested in process.
The video was recently screened as part of a Hort, New York, event (see details on this page, which also has background information on Daniel Gordon). It was produced by Art21 as part of a New York Close Up devoted to artists in the first decade of their professional career, living and working in New York City.
Daniel Gordon Gets Physical | “New York Close Up” | Art21 from Art21 on Vimeo.
Categories: Photography, Video
Canadian Art Junkie 
Very inspirational! I think most artists would benefit from videos like this, explaining how they do what they do.
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This video made my day. Lots of inspiration – thank you.
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I LOVE this… I’m so inspired not to clean my studio!! 🙂 Seriously, though, it is amazing work, and though he tears it all down, the prints completely suggest the hours of work that went into them. I think he must be operating on a subconcious level much of the time, just letting instinct flow… beautiful. Leave that floor alone!
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That’s an astute observation about how he operates subconsciously, which I bet is true. (And so don’t clean up your studio!)
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Reblogged this on yofumoenpipa.
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Thanks for the reblog, appreciated.
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Wow, that was pretty inspiring to me. Now I know what to do with my paintings… well, not exactly, but I know which way to go now… Thanks a lot for showing the Daniel Gordon video!!! 😉
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I so enjoy process shots, process sketches, process anything. So I’m with you on this one.
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😉
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