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Sasha Gordon

Mood Ring

2021

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Sasha Gordon

Mood Ring

2021

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 72 × 60 in. (182.9 × 152.4 cm.)
Credit Line Art Fund established with exchange funds from gifts of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar F. Berman, Equitable Bank, N.A., Geoffrey Gates, Sandra O. Moose, National Endowment for the Arts, Lawrence Rubin, Philip M. Stern, and Alan J. Zakon; with additional funds from Vinny Dotolo and Sarah Hendler, Los Angeles, and Michael Sherman and Carrie Tivador, Los Angeles
Object Number 2022.139
In Mood Ring, Sasha Gordon presents a portrait of her doppelganger. The Bronx-based artists depicted an extremely cropped moon-shaped face enveloped in wispy black hair, with a spectrum of iridescent colors to almost mystify the appearance of her skin. Gordon frequently uses her likeness to examine the instability of identity, body image, and perception. The luminous and reflective powers of its opal-like surface propose skin as a technology for dreaming and shapeshifting, one that offers safety to field and refract pressures to conform to society.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2022; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, 2022; the artist
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Sasha Gordon

1997–2000

born Somers, NY 1998
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