Jan Gordon

For many years, Jan Gordon has been casting her passionate photographer’s eye on the world, capturing shapes, lights, moments, people, urban settings, natural environments and more, mixing them, setting them against each other, reinterpreting them in her own unique way—a new artistic image born from her imagination. From these striking contrasts, Jan brings up an aesthetic emotion, sharing her personal vision of our world’s ambiguity with elegant style, tender sensuality and empathic humor. Whether she creates abstract images by distorting lines, painting a body, mixing textures and materials in real situations or she creates fresques enhancing the spirit of a country, a city, a family, Jan is always exploring new ways of bringing up beauty, emotion, understanding. Through the years, her various projects have included carrying a mannequin head around Paris and photographing it in different situations, painting a model’s body with acrylic paint and covering her with wood and steel, making collages from real photos and mannequins and bodies and photographing the collage. These have led to more recent projects combining living elements such as flowers and branches with steel, and then onto the present combination of nudes and st...

Effet School of Photography, Paris, France
Parson School of Design, Paris, France. Overseas Program in photography
University of California at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California. Masters Photo (with Robert Heinecken)
Otis Parson School of Design, Los Angeles, California. Advanced Photography
University of California at Los Angeles; Los Angeles, California. Graphic Design
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Computer Graphics

Art Sante Fe July, 2016
LA Photo, Los Angeles, California
Wall Street Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Artists Corner Gallery,Photo Independent, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, California
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, California Finegold Art Gallery; Los Angeles, California; ‘Photosphere’
Museum of Fine Arts; Santa fe New Mexico, ‘Southwest 85’
Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Art Rental Gallery; Los Angeles, California
‘Autumnal Directions’ Group exhibit of five artists
International Art Competition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long beach, California; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California; Various Los Angeles Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California.
University Center Gallery, University of California at Santa “Barbara, California
‘Visions of 1984’
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon; ‘10th Annual Juried Photographic Exhibit