Overview
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Jordan Tran is a French painter who currently lives and works in Mulhouse, France. Self-taught, Jordan developed a highly personal approach that led him from his original urban space graffiti interventions to abstract landscape painting.

Presented in vast and enticing ranges of colors, his paintings underline immaculate perfection of gradients that immerse us in different atmospheres exuding a rare sensuality. His works are the result of a method patiently developed, intertwined with his various artistic practices.
 
Initially, Jordan was fascinated by the color gradients that enlivened the backgrounds of his graffiti, on which he began to focus, gradually abandoning lettering. With time, the artist also felt the need to capture through photography the intense sensations triggered by the sight of a landscape, the contemplation of distant horizons, and the observation of subtle variations of light and colors in the sky throughout the day and night. Photography led Jordan to develop formal constants for his paintings, such as dividing the surface with a horizon line, as well as framing his canvases with white margins, like a print.
 
 
Jordan’s mastery of gradients is evident in a very nuanced way through subtle color blending. In his paintings, colors overlap in thin layers of paint, blending into each other seamlessly. This is a long and patient process that gives the artist’s abstraction a unique density, while evoking the deep blue of a night sky, the orange-yellow of a scorching summer sun, or the rosy hues of a sunrise.
 
Jordan’s paintings have a strong emotional power, encouraging the viewer to dream and contemplate. They are an invitation to escape through a canvas that symbolically serves as a window onto another world. The transition from the real world to an imaginary and dreamlike dimension is materialized through the contours that surround the artist’s gradients, abstractly recalling the oval shape of a porthole, the quadrangular shape of a window, or the vertical shape of a door.
 
Tran’s works are part of the legacy of the American Color Field movement, but also, and more importantly, of the Californian Light and Space movement, whose artists, such as the famous James Turrell, have made the study of perceptual phenomena, particularly light and space, central to their concerns.
 
 
 
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EXHIBITIONS

 

2023

Solo Show, “Dolce Vita”, Zberro Gallery, Paris September 2023 Collective Exhibition, Zberro Gallery, Paris July 2023 Collective Exhibition, Duret Gallery, Paris July 2023
Collective Exhibition, GT Gallery, Biarritz July 2023

Solo Show, "Aurora", Warehouse Gallery, Shanghai May 2023 Duo Show, "California Sunset", Zberro Gallery, Paris March 2023 Solo Show, "Breath", Duret Gallery, Brussels 2023

 

2022

Collective Exhibition, "Interaction", Zberro Gallery, Paris 2022
Duo Show, Contaxt Art Miami, Duret Gallery, Miami 2022
Collective Exhibition, "Everyday Sunrise", Duret Gallery, Paris 2022 Collective Exhibition, "Blue Variation", Duret Gallery, Paris 2022 Solo Show, “Retour de vacances”, Zberro Gallery, Paris 2022 Collective Exhibition, Affordable New York, Duret Gallery, NYC 2022 Trio show, Zberro Gallery, Paris 2022

Collective Exhibition, "VIII YEARS" , Duret Gallery, Brussels 2022 Collective Exhibition, "Ligth & Space", Duret Gallery, Brussels 2022 Collective Exhibition, Zberro Gallery, Paris 2022

 

2021

Collective Exhibition, Scope Miami, Duret Gallery, Miami 2021 Solo Show, Zberro Gallery, Paris 2021
Collective Exhibition, Duret Gallery, Brussels 2021
Collective Exhibition, Zberro Gallery, Paris 2021

Collective Exhibition, DUOS 1000m2, Bordeaux 2021 Duo Show, Ground Effect Gallery, Paris 2021 Collective Exhibition, Zberro Gallery, Paris 2021 Solo show, Duret Gallery, Brussels 2021

 

2020

Collective Exhibition Urban Art Fair Paris, Ground Effect Gallery, 2020 Solo Show, Malagacha Gallery, Strasbourg 2020
Collective Exhibition, Duret Gallery, Brussels 2020
Collective Exhibition, Ground Effect Gallery, Paris 2020

Duo Show, Villa Tschaen Gallery, Colmar 2020
Collective Exhibition Affordable London, Duret Gallery, 2020 Collective Exhibition, Saltiel Gallery, Aix en Provence 2020 Collaboration Vins Hebinger, Eguisheim 2020

 

2019

Collective Exhibition, Mulhouse Art Fair, Malagacha Gallery, 2019 Collective Exhibition, START, Malagacha Gallery, Strasbourg 2019 Collective Exhibition, Gand Art Fair, Malagacha Gallery, Gand 2019 Collective Exhibition, Luxembourg Art Fair, Malagacha Gallery, 2019 Collective Exhibition, Contemporary Art Fair, Malagacha, Paris 2019 Collective Exhibition, Malagacha Gallery, Strasbourg 2019 Collective Exhibition, Eyefood Factory Gallery, Lausanne 2019 Collaboration Vins Hebinger, Eguisheim 2019

Duo Show, Villa Tschaen Gallery, Colmar 2019

 

2018

Collective Exhibition, Mulhouse Art Fair, 2018
Collective Exhibition, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Epinal 2018 Solo Show, Villa Tschaen Gallery, Colmar 2018

 

2017

Collective exhibition Mulhouse Art Fair

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