The Shades of Sasha Gordon by Jerry Saltz
October 2025
Usually, I dislike surfaceless hyperrealism; to me, it’s an optical dead end. But 27-year-old Sasha Gordon’s new cycle of self-portraits at David Zwirner, “Haze,” is an exception. The star of the show is a seven-foot-tall painting called Pruning, in which Gordon is trapped in a Houdini-like tank of water, forced down by a faceless female.
