A Heaven for Your Head
by Jordan McGirk
Exhibition Dates: April through October 12, 2022
Location: Pre-security, Lower Level A Concourse Wall
My recent paintings depict young naval-gazers and cynics reconciling the promise of a daydream with the looming reality of heartbreak. In earnest repose, they criticize the audacity of a blue sky while a virus fills the air. How dare it be so impossibly blue?
Clouds, like heavy apparitions, insert themselves into an otherwise promising day. At times, clouds appear to weigh down our hero’s shoulders, straining their necks or filling their head with unearned optimism; and at other times, they are colossi burdening the figure with existential dismay. Here, nods to the history of painting are ruminations on a canon of heroic struggle and a just cosmos—every finger pointed at the heavens is a plea for rest.
About the Artist: Jordan McGirk
Jordan McGirk is an Artist working in Boston, Massachusetts. He received his BFA in Studio Art with an emphasis in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MFA is Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis.
Jordan McGirk has exhibited work nationally, including Amos Eno Gallery in New York, Houska Gallery in St. Louis, Lit Gallery in Tennessee, AVC Gallery in California, and Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, D.C.
To learn more, visit: www.jordanmcgirk.com
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