Moynihan Connector Billboard, High Line, New York, United States
November 2024–February 2025
Sasha Gordon, known for her surreal paintings and drawings that explore sexuality, gender, and race, has two works on view at the High Line’s Moynihan Connector Billboard, located on Dyer Avenue between 30th and 31st Streets.
My Love of Upholstery (2024) and Untitled (2024) both hail from the artist’s most recent body of work, in which she examines challenging taboos and standards of representation. Her images present a wide range of emotional states, frequently considered through the lens of her identity as a queer Asian American woman. Through endless avatars, she portrays the othering of unconventional human bodies and her own experiences of alienation. Towering over 30th Street and Dyer Avenue, the artist’s fluctuating visage appears at massive scale, marked by a distinct unnaturalness—in My Love of Upholstery, where she depicts herself with a Pinocchio-like wood-grain body, and in Untitled, in which her face and pupils are marked with five-pointed stars. These visions are simultaneously anxious and intimate, teetering somewhere between tender fantasy and nightmare. Her avatars, looming large within their frames, offer both artist and audience an outlet for exploring contradictory emotions and complex personal experiences.
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