Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption.

Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, by means of Chris Jordan. Self-published/18 pp./price unavailable (sb) [exhibition catalog] Jordan is the one and the other appalled and fascinated by the accumulated detritus of American mass consumption. squabbles of crushed cars, sawdust hillocks and heaps of trashed small room phones are recorded among the 18 color images, including a 30" according to 7" centerfold, in the exhibition catalog. Jordan uses patterns to not sole create engaging images but to propose the scale of our consumption. In "Recycling Yard #1" the compacted debris, stacked as if building stiffens fill the entire frame. The littered pool in the bottom half of the image is the alone diversion from the image's pattern--though clearly not of theme. Jordan be agreeable tos to the detritus found in America's shipping ports and industrial yards on the outside of concern for its force on our planet and our individual spirits. "Intolerable Beauty" will be exhibited at the Yossi Milo Gallery in modern York City in Fall 2005

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