JACQUELINE GORDON @ Queens Nails Project October 16, 2009

Jacqueline Gordon’s work focuses on the integration of contemporary folk aesthetics with the emergent technology of sound imaging. Patterns recurrent in nature and collected sounds are synthesized to create inhabitable sculptures that alter one’s physical experience to evoke feelings of intimacy and connectedness or confinement and isolation.

Gordon’s oeuvre contains installation work as disparate as inviting, womb-like interiors made of plush quilted fabrics and inaccessible, voyeuristic settings behind storefront glass. These seemingly opposite types of spaces merge in her newest installation Our Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine, in which an all-encompassing soundscape whitewashes the gallery in a matrix of vinyl and speakers. Replacing the white cube of the gallery with a white cube of Gordon's own making, her piece teases out the irony of the fascist strains within utopianism by referencing the gap between the lived experience of such barebones environments as sensory deprivation tanks, geodesic domes, and Britalist architecture and the aspirational rhetorics that surround their production.