{"id":19442,"date":"2021-05-21T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=19442"},"modified":"2021-05-21T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:04:28","slug":"daniel-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2021\/05\/21\/daniel-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"New Greenway Mural Is A Giant Fruit And Flowers Still-Life Designed By Daniel Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the Brooklyn-based commercial painting firm Overall Murals put the finishing touches on \u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,\u201d a mural depicting an arrangement of fruit and flowers plus the title\u2019s fern and lobster, designed by New York artist Daniel Gordon, at Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway on the tunnel ventilation building facing Dewey Square, along Purchase Street between Congress Street and Summer Street.<\/p>\n

In addition to the mural, \u201cDaniel Gordon on The Greenway,\u201d<\/a> which is scheduled to be on view through May 2022, offers a selection of Gordon\u2019s photography installed on the Greenway in the North End and Wharf District. \u201cThis installation will bring Gordon\u2019s work into the public realm for the first time,\u201d The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy writes.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Gordon photos on the Greenway in Boston as part of “Daniel Gordon on The Greenway,” May 2021. (Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Born in Boston, raised in San Francisco, based in Brooklyn, Gordon is known for creating photos that typically entertain with their funny play and confusion between digital and handcraft.<\/p>\n

As Karen Rosenberg explained in The New York Times in 2014, \u201cGordon starts in the most innocuous, inauspicious of ways: with Google searches for still lifes. He then prints the results\u2014images of fruits, vegetables and vases\u2014and turns them into three-dimensional photo-sculptures with scissors and glue. Those objects are then arranged on punchy, patterned backdrops, a la Matisse, and photographed. In yet another stage of picture making, the photographs are tweaked through digital editing; colors are changed with Fauvist abandon and background features\u2014shadows, a studio window\u2014added or erased.\u201d<\/p>\n

In mid-June, the Greenway Conservancy plans to install a sculpture by Gordon \u201cthat will be an enlarged version of the paper objects that Gordon employs in his photographs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Greenway Conservancy says, \u201cThe multidisciplinary exhibition begs the question, where does the line lie between a photograph, a painting, and a sculpture?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The commercial painting firm Overall Murals works on \u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,\u201d designed by New York artist Daniel Gordon, on the tunnel ventilation building facing Dewey Square, along Purchase Street between Congress Street and Summer Street, May 2021. (Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u201cSummer Still Life with Lobster and Fern,” designed by Daniel Gordon, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, Dewey Square, Boston, May 19, 2021. (Photo: Hayden Todd)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daniel Gordon photos on the Greenway in Boston as part of “Daniel Gordon on The Greenway,” May 2021. (Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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