Jordan West in his studio
I like to think of myself as somewhat of a Social Scientist; a Sociologist observing people, an Anthropologist traveling with notebook, an Archeologist making field sketches. I have never wanted to be specifically associated with any one particular school or movement of art or thought. - Jordan West
Jordan West’s work is a chronicle of the experience of the individual in the socially constructed, and human built environment, specific encounters of place and time. His environments are initially, personally experienced, and documented photographically, then edited and realized by paint. Through this process of personal experience and artistic transposition, West reduces and clarifies description of space and experience, a stylized representation of reality, a mechanical facsimile, a simulacrum; while maintaining a reflection of the notions of fate, the sublime, isolation, dream, memory, vision, and history.