Jordan writes, “I use images from real estate listings as references for my prints. The listings are often poignant and strange and speak of our search for safety, our struggle for survival. The houses tell the story of our many different economic and personal realities. In appropriating these images, I speak of the conflict between home as a commodity and home as a habitat essential to survival. With these prints, I ask: who lives in this house, who wants to live in this house, and what does that say? A recent series depicting homes partially submerged by floodwaters addresses the question of shelter in this time of climate crisis. These images ask the same questions: who lives in this house, where are they now, and what does that say?”

Nina Jordan is a painter and printmaker living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She is the recipient of a NYFA fellowship in printmaking and artists’ books. Her prints and artists’ books are in many collections, including the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the New York Public Library, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the University of Richmond Museums.