Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit the Long Island City studio of Canadian born, New York based painter, Jordan Broadworth . Broadworth's layred, evocative pieces present multiple takes on the figure / ground relationship as isolated segments blur or refine depths of field. The focus is constantly shifted between planes and layers, the hard edge and the liltingly biomorphic. The employed grid combines with a metaphysical openness to lull viewers into a techno trance and jolt them back out again. The resulting paintings are grand, superb hybrids of our increasingly digital environment and a more expansive, human reservoir that we seek even as we leave it behind. Broadworth in his studio, Long Island City, 2013 From the artist's statement: Paintings lead double lives nowadays. Every flesh and blood work spawns a pixilated and highly itinerate twin. How we read and interpret paintings has changes through the experi...