New Museum
of Contemporary Art , Lower East Side
Until Sunday May 24 2020
The first
solo museum exhibition in New York City of work by artist Jordan Casteel (b.
1989, Denver, Colorado).
Bringing
together nearly forty paintings spanning her career, including works from her
celebrated series Visible Man (2013–14) and Nights in Harlem (2017), along with
recent portraits of her students at Rutgers University-Newark, “Within Reach”
will be Jordan Casteel’s first solo museum exhibition in New York City.
In her
large-scale oil paintings, Casteel has developed a distinctive figurative
language permeated by the presence of her subjects, who are typically captured
in larger-than-life depictions that teem with domestic details and
psychological insights.
Portraying
people from communities in which the artist lives and works—including former
classmates at Yale, where she earned an MFA; street vendors and neighbors near
her home in Harlem; and her own students at Rutgers University-Newark in New
Jersey—Casteel insists upon the ordinary, offering scenes with both the
informality of a snapshot and the frontality of an official portrait. In these
richly colorful works, Casteel draws upon ongoing conversations on portraiture
that encompass race, gender, and subjectivity, connecting her practice to the
legacy of artists like Alice Neel, Faith Ringgold, and Bob Thompson, among
others. Casteel’s studies in anthropology and sociology also inform her works,
which can often be read as a reflection on the presentation of the self in
everyday life and as an investigation of the relationships that tie together
intimacy and distance, familiarity and otherness.
Casteel’s
subjects, who are frequently black men looking directly at the viewer, are
self-possessed and casually posed, but, as they stare in the distance, they
also seem to ponder questions about masculinity and class, belonging and
displacement. In the exchange of gazes between the sitters, the artist, and the
viewers, her paintings blur impulses and aspirations to compose a nuanced
portrait of daily life in the US.
Youtube
Trailer
https://youtu.be/rvLAL_7DzzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCrox2YFATE
Πολίτικη Κουζίνα
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIubwT5Ogwk
Memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_-En9RU1Q
Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xc1yKw8-Cw
Beyonce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDkO98oeAB4
Youtube
Trailer
https://youtu.be/rvLAL_7DzzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCrox2YFATE
Πολίτικη Κουζίνα
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIubwT5Ogwk
Memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_-En9RU1Q
Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xc1yKw8-Cw
Beyonce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDkO98oeAB4
