About Jerry Jordan

  • Biography

    The following, a reference from Barry Holbert, is from the artist's web site:, www.antiqueseller.com/jerryjordan

    Partway through a blue-corn enchilada in the bright courtyard of a cafe in Taos, New Mexico, Jerry Jordan leans back, looks up, and points randomly to a worked tin fight fixture on a shaded adobe wall. "That's lavender, " he says. "It's lavender and blue. It's not gray. If you paint it gray, the painting's boring. "Jordan shifts his gaze, squints, and in a moment has identified two more subjects: not a group of people eating, but "that pink blouse, " and a play of light and shadow; not a cafe umbrella, but the translucent orange shape of it seen from below, with the inverted "blue bowl of the sky" above, and the umbrella's...

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