artist: Jordan Scott

title: Taos, (2008-09)

inventory: js-3150

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 48 x 24 inches

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: American, (2012)

inventory: js-4242

media: US Postage Stamps, Resin on Canvas

size: 60 x 36 inches

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: When One Thing Becomes Two, (2001)

inventory: js-4245

media: Wood Biscuits, Resin on Panel

size: 38 1/2 x 35 inches

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Elements, (2003)

inventory: js-4246

media: Wood biscuits, Resin on Panel

size: 18.5 X 47.5 inches EACH
(5 total pieces)

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Golden Morning Lake, (2012)

inventory: js-4086

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 48 x 24 inches (diptych)

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Oasis, (2011-2)

inventory: js-4143

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 58 x 30 inches

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Lotus Flower 2, (2011)

inventory: js-4167

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 25 x 19 inches

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Sedona, (2012)

inventory: js-4241

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 36 x 36 inches

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Underneath the Jungle Gym, (2009-11)

inventory: js-3590

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: Fifteen pieces, 48 x 24 inches total

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Atmospheric Conditions, (2010)

inventory: js-4084

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 24 x 48 inches

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Winter, (2009-10)

inventory: js-3147

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: diptych - 30 x 24 inches

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Mind the Gap, (2011-2)

inventory: js-4090

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 36 x 60 inches

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Emma Blue, (2010-11)

inventory: js-3585

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: diptych - each piece 36 x 36 inches, 36 x 72 inches total

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Resonance, (2010)

inventory: js-3583

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 60 x 36 inches

price: contact gallery

 

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series I, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series II, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series IV, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series VII, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series VIII, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series IX, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series XIII, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series XIV, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series XV, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series XVI, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series XVII, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

artist: Jordan Scott

title: Siganal Series XVIII, (2010)

inventory: js-3594

media: USA postage stamps, resin on canvas

size: 10 x 10 inches uf
14.5 x 14.5 inches framed

price: contact gallery

 

 

 

 

 

Jordan Scott (b. 1968)

Originating Ideas

When I was very young my mother took me to a press proofing for a printed product
advertisement and I looked into the glass loop and saw all of the tiny individual dots that made up the solid colors. Traveling to downtown Chicago and looking up at all of the sides of the skyscrapers, the John Hancock Building, the Sears Tower, and seeing all of those windows, each with its own unknown world going on inside. Carl Jung and the collective unconsciousness. Ant colonies. Digital pixilation. Remote viewing. Breaking a world down into its component parts and/or observing the big picture created from the connection of all these parts. The Hindu concepts of the Atman and the Brahman. The interconnectedness of the universe. Slight variations on similar things. Neutrinos. The postage stamp collages, each composed of hundreds or thousands of similar elements, but creating an interconnected and interdependent whole much greater than the sum of its parts.

Materials/Stamps

I often use materials outside of their normal context. These materials are used and
arranged in ways that they were never really intended. I work with a limited and
repeating set of elements that are either identical or very similar in nature, but have,
or can be made to have, slight variations, or imperfections. This limited and repeating
set of elements allows a certain kind of freedom from not having to think much about
the materials at all. These elements usually can be accumulated and assembled
in large numbers. The resin, like liquid glass, helps to create and hold together the
interconnectedness of the individual elements, and at the same time heightens and
helps to clarify and define the qualities of the individual elements.

The stamp pieces are painstakingly put together from thousands of canceled postage
stamps. Besides their obvious physical beauty, the pieces are interesting on many other
levels as well. Previously used and canceled stamps, by their very nature, are richly
evocative and the many different types of cancellation marks and other imperfections
beg the questions: where did they originate? who sent them? what letters did they
carry? They each represent a person, or persons, and what was sent in the envelopes
that each stamp was once attached to remains a mystery.

Each stamp has this hidden history of its own and each represents a currency that
carried a letter from a point of origin to its intended destination. Each small stamp
represents this unknown story of its own and, in addition, the expanded web of the
larger life and context that they were once connected to. These works touch on both the
individual and the collective, on both the original sender and the society as a whole.

The physically beauty of the pieces is another dimension to them and is self-evident.
What is the most striking is what happens as the viewer sees the pieces from a
distance, often thinking they are fabric/textile in nature, and then moves closer to
inspect and discovers that the color field, or color bands, are actually composed of
thousand of individual paper elements. At first glance, the elements themselves are
all seemingly the same, but on even closer inspection, they reveal their individual
differences, variations, and imperfections --especially in reference to the different
cancellations marks that represent thousands of different towns and cities across the
country.

Process

One at a time basic construction with great repetition. Doing the same thing over and
over again, repeated thousands of times. Very time consuming. Slight variation upon
close inspection. Slowly building-up something from one original action, element or
gesture. An extreme focus on an inward state of mind through a repetitive external
activity. A meditation. Creating a new thing by destroying, altering, rearranging, or
misusing other things. Repetition to get an idea right and keeping the series going as
long as it takes to get it right.