Sasha Gordon Interview by Lucy Liu
September 2025
Last week, when Lucy Liu met the painter Sasha Gordon for the first time on Zoom, she opened with a bold declaration: “You’re just delicious.” Gordon, caught off guard, broke into a bashful giggle. Despite having been recently turboshot into art world stardom, the 27-year-old artist maintains a tumultuous relationship with her reflection, one she continues to reproduce in her saturated and warped self-portraits. Gordon often paints herself as anxious and erotic, allowing her to maintain control over her own narrative. Liu, who’s spent decades navigating the vagaries of the entertainment industry, knows the drill: to exist as an image is to risk being consumed by it. In Haze, a new solo exhibition opening at David Zwirner next week, Gordon places her alter-ego at the center of tense and unnerving plots. But each piece, nevertheless, maintains her trademark injections of humor and wit. In conversation, the two artists went deep on tokenization, death, and surviving the spotlight.