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Gavin Jordan
the body remembers
Memory, identity, and the traces of lived experience.
Tethered Heart, Untethered Dreams2023
The artist
Gavin Jordan
Jamaican figurative artist based in Miami
Gavin Jordan is a Jamaican figurative artist based in Miami. His work explores memory, identity and the traces of lived experience, moving across painting, sculptural construction and material experimentation.
Earlier screw-built sculptured work was shown in Making Home: The Underground Library at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2024.
A new body of work is taking shape in the Miami studio.
about the artist →Archive · 2019-2024
Sculptured Works
For years the figures were built with screws — thousands of them, placed at precise depths to create three-dimensional paintings you could feel. Each piece used 1,300 to 6,800 individual screws, uniquely positioned so the image had literal depth in the room.
The materials change. The preoccupation with depth remains.
Exhibitions & recognition
- Jamaican Art Exhibition · Museum im Kloster, Bersenbrück · 2025
- Making Home — The Underground Library · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York · 2024
- Spectrum Miami Art Fair · Mana Wynwood (Spectrum Miami), Miami · 2023
- Moments in Time · The Sky Gallery, Kingston · 2022
Limited edition prints
Own the Image
Signed, numbered archival prints of selected paintings. Editions of 50. Museum-quality archival paper.
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- $200-$400 per print
Studio journal
From the Studio
Apr 2026
Why Chalk Disappears — And Why That Matters
The impermanence of chalk is not a limitation. It's the point.
read more →Apr 2026
Building a Visual Vocabulary, One Symbol at a Time
read more →Mar 2026
From Screws to Chalk: The Same Obsession, Different Depth
For years I built paintings outward. Thousands of screws. Now the depth goes inward.
read more →Studio list
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