Jordan Eagles is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working with blood as his primary medium, he has developed a preservation process layering it into UV resin and plexiglass to create translucent panels that explore the material's organic properties and source.
Blood is Jordan Eagles's medium, and he has spent nearly three decades figuring out exactly what it can hold. Working from his studio in Ridgewood, Queens, Eagles developed his own preservation process (layering blood into UV resin and plexiglass at precise stages of cure time) that locks in the organic material's colors, stratifications, and light. When mounted and lit, the panels become translucent, almost stained-glass in their luminosity. That formal quality is never decorative: Eagles treats the material's source as the argument. Animal blood sourced from slaughterhouses drives his more metaphysical work on corporeality and regeneration; donated human blood (primarily from LGBTQI+ individuals barred or burdened by FDA donation restrictions) drives his political practice. The question underneath both bodies of work is the same: what does it mean to mark something, or someone, as tainted?
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