{"id":15618,"date":"2017-03-15T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=15618"},"modified":"2017-03-15T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:30:07","slug":"jordan-tate-visits-the-big-apple-for-recent-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/jordan-tate-visits-the-big-apple-for-recent-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Tate Visits the Big Apple for Recent Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jordan Tate<\/a> is an artist who doesn’t use Instagram filters. #nofilter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He’s\u00a0a Cincinnati resident who works as\u00a0an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Cincinnati – although Jordan is an art professor, he did not have a traditional art school experience. His focus was more towards critical thinking, critique, and deconstruction so he has\u00a0always approached art from that paradigm rather than a formal or medium specific model.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tate\u2019s work is currently held in impressive collections nationwide, including Rhizome at the New Museum<\/a>, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Fred and Laura Bidwell Collection, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and additional galleries in the USA and Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We have our artful eye on Tate’s recent exhibition\u00a0Prefaces, <\/em>which marks\u00a0the third time he’s exhibited at\u00a0the Denny Gallery<\/a> in New York. This collection is easily the most personal work he’s ever made.\u00a0Kierkegaard\u2019s Prefaces<\/i>, which is comprised of introductions to unrealized novels, functions as the inspiration for Tate\u2019s series by the same title. According to Denny Gallery, Tate inverses this equation\u2014creating final documentation for projects that have never existed in our present reality.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Art Zealous chatted with Tate about his influences and more about\u00a0Prefaces. <\/em>We’re super excited to see what he gets up to next!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Art Zealous: Influences<\/strong>?<\/p>\n Jordan Tate:<\/strong>\u00a0As far as influences go, I could list a number of artists over the years whose work I felt a resonance with – but I’d also say that I’m much more influenced by the internet at large that any individual or photographic genre\/sub-genre. The internet has been a constant, engulfing, and powerful influence.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: How did you first get into art & photography?<\/strong><\/p>\n JT: <\/strong>I received a Pentax K-1000 as a gift when I was a teenager and as the clich\u00e9 goes – it changed my life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A<\/strong>Z: If you could choose an Instagram filter for your life, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n JT: <\/strong>I have to confess that I don’t use Instagram to post images in the traditional sense. They always go through Photoshop and then to Instagram so I don’t know any of the filters or their effects. As far as I know, there isn’t anything Instagram can do the Photoshop can’t.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: Currently listening to?<\/strong><\/p>\n JT: <\/strong>Sylvan Esso (literally right now, I’m on a plane on the way back from NYC). I’ve just opened a solo show at Denny Gallery in the LES titled Prefaces<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: Drink of choice?<\/strong><\/p>\n JT: <\/strong>Rye whiskey and Sour Beer (I’m also an avid brewer).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: Tell us about your ongoing research concerning the visual and conceptual processes of image comprehension.<\/strong><\/p>\n JT: <\/strong>I would say that this is more related to earlier works. Prefaces<\/em> denotes a significant shift in my practice (maybe away from the research on process and effect and towards work that questions its effect).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n