Art Fact Friday #35 Jordan Casteel
- William Mandela Matthews
- Mar 29, 2024
- 3 min read
An american figurative painter, with a commitment to social justice and serious devotion to art practice. Through portraiture the artist magnifies subjects who are absent from traditional museum exhibitions and collections.The artist creates magnetic variations of amber, lavender, and indigo, to unmask conventional concepts of gender and race.The artist addresses the ideas of Black masculinity, through larger paintings of friends, family members, and classmates.
The artists names Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Faith Ringgold, Charles White, and Jacob Lawrence as influences in their process.This artist has presented solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.The artist public works include Brooklyn Academy of Music and Public Art Fund, New York, NY. In addition the artist has been included in collection at Baltimore Museum of Art, St. Louis Art Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Modern, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Pérez Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal KAdE, MoCA Los Angeles, Studio Museum and MASS MoCA.
Born in Denver, CO on Febuary 17th 1989; Jordan Casteel began studying at Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy in 2010. She then received a BA in studio art from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA in 2011. Followed in 2014 by an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Her first solo exhibition in New York, titled Visible Man, opened in August 2014 at Sargent's Daughters. Her next solo exhibition, “Brothers” opened at Sargent's Daughters, 2015.The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York selected Casteel as a 2015-2016 artist-in-residence. In 2017 she opened “Nights in Harlem” at Casey Kaplan a solo display of works.
The Denver Art Museum hosted Casteel's first museum exhibition in 2019. The exhibition contains around thirty paintings created between 2014 and 2028. In 2019, High Line Art hired Casteel to recreate a 2017 painting“The Baayfalls”; as a 1,400-square-foot mural. The Pérez Art Museum Miami acquired “Lourdes and Katrina” for its permanent collection in 2019. Casteel opened a solo exhibition In 2020 titled “Within Reach” opened at New Museum, NY, accompanied by an illustrated catalogue.Also, Casteel’s portrait of Aurora James was featured on the September 2020 cover of Vogue magazine. Casteel received a fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation in 2021. Casey Kaplan, NY also opened “In bloom” the same year.
In the 2022 Casteels pieces were featured in a group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the show was titled Women Painting Women. Casteel currently serves an Assistant Professor of Painting in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University.
Casteel has been featured in notable solo and group exhibition for Sargent's Daughters Gallery, NY; Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC; the Denver Art Museum; High Line, NY; New Museum, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY;Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL; Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum, NY and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
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