Jordan Danchilla: Those Days, These Days
August 30 - October 6
The GALLERY / art placement, Saskatoon

Reception: Thursday, September 1, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Art Placement is delighted to present "Those Days, These Days", the first solo exhibition by Jordan Danchilla at the gallery. The sprawling installation of paintings, drawings, collages, mixed media works, objects, and assemblages speaks to the multiple and varied ways that Danchilla filters the world through his art.

Danchilla's works defy easy classification, both in terms of medium, as well as their place on the spectrum between representational and non-objective art. His creative process is exploratory and experimental, driven by curiosity and a seemingly irreverent approach to images. He has developed an expansive visual lexicon that incorporates a diverse range of influences and references, everything from canonical masters of western art, to street signs, book covers, and produce labels to name a few. He transforms this source material into two-dimensional wall works that are not strictly paintings, drawings, collages, or prints, but rather they often combine elements and application techniques borrowed from some or all of these disciplines and others. A single work typically combines a variety of materials as well, everything from acrylic, oil, latex, Flashe, and watercolour paint, to wood, tape, cardboard, paper, graphite, felt, fabric, and more. Filtered through Danchilla's aesthetic lens, these diverse works achieve a stylistic unity that is grounded in his meticulous attention to process and materials. 

Jordan Danchilla is a Saskatoon-based artist who works in a variety of two and three-dimensional media. He studied printmaking at the University of Saskatchewan and is primarily self-taught in other media. He has exhibited his work since 2013 and his works have been collected by individuals in Canada and abroad.

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Jordan Danchilla, "Pineapple Venus", JD119
2012-2022, oil transfer drawing on muslin, pochoir on linen, 10-1/4" x 10-1/4", $650.00 Unframed CDN (+ taxes)