Upcoming
4.12 – 16.1 2027
Daniel Gordon:Objects at Hand
3–5 Swallow Street
Daniel Gordon:Objects at Hand
4.12 – 16.1.2027
Upcoming
Hours
Monday to Friday, 10:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Gallery
3–5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE
Daniel Gordon. Light Study, (Spoons and Espresso Cup) [2025]
Daniel Gordon. Light Study (Espresso Cup and shadows) [2024]
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.
Daniel Gordon. Light Study (Espresso Cup and shadows) [2024]
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. They exist solely as the image of the object, through which Gordon can investigate modes of seeing.
B. United States1980
Biography
Moving between two and three dimensions, Daniel Gordon’s practice explores the relationship between photography and sculpture through the appropriation and reconstruction of found imagery. Sourcing images of still-life subjects from the internet and his own photographs, Gordon prints, cuts and assembles them into three-dimensional objects, which he arranges into elaborate tableaux before photographing them. Combining handmade and digital processes, his compositions draw on the traditions of still-life painting, transforming everyday objects into colourful, highly constructed scenes. Leaving seams and imperfections of his paper constructions visible, Gordon deliberately emphasises the material qualities of his subjects, questioning the relationship between image and object and the increasingly intertwined nature of photographic representation and the physical world.
Daniel Gordon was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1980. In 2023 he received a BA from Bard College, New York, followed by an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2006. In 2014, Gordon was awarded the Foam Paul Huf Award. His work has been published in numerous monographs, including Flying Pictures (2009), Still Lifes, Portraits & Parts (2013), and Objects at Hand (2026). Gordon has exhibited extensively internationally, with solo exhibitions including Shadows, Patterns, Pears, Foam, Amsterdam (2014); Hue and Saturate, Houston Center for Photography, Houston (2019); Green Apples and Boots, Huxley-Parlour, London (2021); and Free Transform, Kasmin, New York (2023). Selected group exhibitions include New Photography 2009, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); Greater New York 2010, MoMA PS1, New York (2010); Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2018); and Looking Forward: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier 24, San Francisco (2022); and Oranges and Artichokes, Huxley-Parlour, London (2024). His work is held in major public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Foam, Amsterdam. Gordon lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.