Aria in the Area, Abstract Painting, 2014

Oil on canvas - Unframed Dana Gordon’s kaleidoscopic compositions are contemplative and evoke somewhat Orphic Cubism. His paintings have an overwhelming presence with their colour and structure, where gestural curves, unconstrained small pattern and form play together. Gordon is interested in the visual conversation between colours, shapes and lines, looking for the tension between the shape and the grid. He thinks of the shapes, adjoining shapes, and clusters of shapes as little paintings in themselves, within the larger whole painting. Dana Gordon is an American abstract painter whose work for many years has explored playful shapes, and vivid colors to display an exuberant abstraction. As a multidisciplinary artist, Gordon also writes about art, has designed sets for opera and dance, and, in the period 1968-78, made avant-garde films as well as paintings. He lives and works in New York City.