“Weird” is a fitting word to describe Sasha Gordon’s paintings, which embrace the uncanny through self-portraiture only to assert the very real feeling of navigating layered selves. They explore the full range of her personhood as a biracial queer woman, using devices such as color, scale, and doubling to define herself while pushing against real-world limits. This handling is deft, and deliciously unsubtle: Gordon’s figures loom large within their frames, rendered in hallucinatory palettes and at ease in their perfectly strange domains.⁠ •⁠ Read more about Artsy Vanguard '22 honoree Sasha Gordon (@sashaagordon) in Artsy Editorial from Claire Voon (@clairevoon) through the link in our bio.⁠ •⁠ #SashaGordon, Concert Mistress, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown.⁠ #SashaGordon, In My Dreams I Dance for You, 2022. Courtesy of the artist, Matthew Brown, and Jeffrey Deitch.⁠ #SashaGordon, Almost A Very Rare Thing, 2022. Courtesy of the artist, Matthew Brown, and Jeffrey Deitch.