JORGE PARDO
Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1963 and raised in the United States, Jorge Pardo is well known for his interdisciplinary approach to art that merges the fine arts, architecture and design. He experiments with the creative possibilities on the borders of those disciplines, testing their everyday applicability and aesthetic autonomy. Many of his works combine free art installations and purposeful architecture, like his redesign of the exhibition architecture of the Pre-Columbian Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Pardo describes his stand-alone sculptural works like “James” as his personal “sketches”, which he uses to test out ideas. The resulting insights about material, form and colour inform and shape his larger sculptures and installations. Jorge Pardo is based in Los Angeles and New York.