Jordan Dunlop

I exhibited art from an early age and continuing throughout my adult life. My intention is to engage art with a child-like enthusiasm. This is made evident through voluminous output of drawings and paintings using only a Magnum Sharpie, many small sketch books and reclaimed objects to paint on. What keeps me creating artwork is both the process of making, meditative & informational states, as well as experimental visual applications helping to propel artwork forward.


Recent developments in paint

"The most beautiful marks lay hidden from the viewer"
Recent paintings and drawings explore gestural abstraction allowing intention and chance to develop naturally. Jordan paints on repurposed plexi-glass and believes the most beautiful marks lay hidden from the viewer. Painting on the front and reverse side of the picture plain is a method Jordan describes as dyslexic alchemy; a dual sided method of painting transforming common paint marks into grand gestures simply by turning the plexi glass around. This method of painting fills a philosophical understanding of how the world works for the artist. We develop a way of working through intention which takes us only so far, as chance intervenes and erases our attempts to show us...

Nova Scotia School of fine art-University
Halifax, NS
BFA 2006 Drawing & Painting

2020 April, Artist Sale, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, On
2018 October, Time Raiser- Juried Auction, Power Plant, Toronto, On
2018 October, Primordial Mirror, solo exhibition, Star X Gallery, Peterborough, On
2018 June, Dyslexic Alchemy, solo drawing exhibition, Hamilton Public Library
2018 Nov, Absence & The Experience, solo exhibit, Shambala Center, Toronto, On
2017 June, Under One Roof, group exhibition, Peter MacKendrick Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 May, Time Raiser 150, Juried Auction, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
2017 March, Under One Roof, group exhibition, Peter Mackendrick Gallery, Toronto, ON
2016 February, Black & White Ball, group exhibit, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, On
2015 October, Why The "$%# Do You Paint" juried exhibition, Gladestone Hotel, Toronto
2015 April, propeller Gallery, Salon 9 –group exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
2015 March, Propeller Gallery, Networks-group exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
2014 Strange Visions, online curatorial project by Katharine Henning, Saatchi Online
2013 July – Edward Day Gallery, Insert Here- Group show, Toronto, On
2013 April- Wychwood Barns - Nature: up Close and Personal- Group show, Toronto
2013 Gallery 1313 – Eco Art show, Juried group show, Toronto On
2012 Han...