There is a strong visceral attraction in Jorden’s paintings. Her seemingly endless experimentation with the viscosity of paint and intermingling of texture, form and color is an invitation to the romantic confusion of paint as paint. Her mark-making brings to mind handwriting, graffiti, and the tactile qualities of abstract expressionism.

The (non-)color black is ever present in each canvas, working as the agent that holds the compositions in place, but upon closer inspection, is worked with the same idiosyncratic deftness as the haphazard pockets and lines of color. She elaborates gestural space by layering complex, vibrant tracings of color against these deceptively simple patches of black. The viewer is challenged to discern what is foreground and what is background.

Jorden creates an elaborate compost of the medium. Her work has a particular dynamism. Colors blend in various ways, building up layers and mysteriously holding form in one area, then shooting out into strokes of light or dark or thin looping trajectories.