Universal and Timeless — Jordan Nassar

Artist Jordan Nassar and Kate Irvin, Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles, will discuss the intersection of traditional craft techniques and contemporary aesthetics that is present in Nassar’s multi-disciplinary processes. Exploring themes of universality and timelessness, the conversation will focus on Nassar’s philosophical approach to art making and the power of simplicity.
Nassar’s work Your Seeds Shall Live In My Body, a hand-embroidered cotton piece, is in the RISD Museum collection.
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Jordan Nassar’s art practice engages the material variety of craft to execute ideas centered on heritage and homeland. Through hand-embroidery, wood inlay, glass, mosaics, and expansive installations, he examines identity and diaspora. Nassar often employs “the landscape” as a thread throughout these different mediums, carefully mapping out patterns and repeatedly intercepting them, using fields of color to define rolling hills and expanses of water. Nassar created a body of embroidery work with the participation of craftswomen in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron, juxtaposing local traditions with a contemporary aesthetic. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; KMAC Museum, Kentucky, among others. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, The Museum of Contemporary Art, California; and RISD Museum, Rhode Island, among others. Nassar is represented by James Cohan, New York; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; and The Third Line, Dubai.