8 Sept 2007 to 20 Oct 2007
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Reception : September 8, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM
Paul Kopeikin Gallery
6150 Wilshire Blvd
CA 90048
Los Angeles, CA
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Image � Chris Jordan Cans Seurat, 2007 Archival inkjet Print, 60 x 92 in
Image � Chris Jordan Cans Seurat, 2007 Archival inkjet Print 60x92"
The Paul Kopeikin Gallery is proud to present Running the Numbers: An American Self Portrait, the most recent series by Chris Jordan. This is Jordan's third exhibition at the Gallery.
This exhibition opens Saturday, September 8 and runs through October 20, 2007.
A reception with the artist will take place on Saturday, September 8, 2007 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Chris Jordan again examines a disturbing aspect of contemporary American culture, this time through the austerity of statistics. The series evaluates the enormity of personal and national consumption with a familiar approach in line with Jordan's progressive spirit and previous work. What's different in this series, other than the imagery itself, is their scale, which in this case is a vital part of their substance.
"These images are portals of cultural self-inquiry" - Chris Jordan
The photographs hold the viewer with the recognition and implication of each staggering statistic. Each image portrays a specific quantity of a commonly consumed or used item in the United States: Fifteen million sheets of office paper equaling five minutes of paper use; 106,000 aluminum cans representing thirty seconds of can consumption.
Images representing these quantities have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre Societal measures in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
Running the Numbers An American Self-Portrait This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics tend to feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or a trillion dollars spent on the Iraq war. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed photographic prints assembled from tens- of-thousands of smaller images. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.
