A series of paintings grappling with the current moment in American cultural pathology by artist Jordan Sullivan. Based in Queens, New York, Sullivan’s work focuses on the unsightly aspects of contemporary life. For Sullivan, the casual extremity of the imagery are signs of how far things have come and the ways in which the incomprehensible has become normalized:
“If psychosis is a breakdown of meaning, what my paintings attest to is how deviancy, addiction, fantasy and dreams of destruction are symptoms of living in a country that is impossible to make sense of. Any search for truth is betrayed by the vulgarness of life under capital. What then are we left with? If anything, my paintings are enchanted and perturbed by the strange beauty of the absurdity, isolation, addiction and horror that haunts this country.”
