Jordan Casteel

Jordan Casteel
Born 1989
Denver, CO
Residence New York
Education Agnes Scott College (BA)
Yale School of Art (MFA)

Jordan Casteel (born 1989)[1] is an American figurative painter. Casteel typically paints intimate portraits of friends, lovers, and family members as well as neighbors and strangers in Harlem and New York.[2] Casteel lives and works in New York City.[3]

Early life and education

Casteel was born in Denver, Colorado in 1989.[4] Casteel has a twin brother and an older brother.[5] Artists Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Faith Ringgold, Charles White, and Jacob Lawrence were significant influences while growing up.[5]

Casteel studied at Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy in 2010 and graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia in 2011. Casteel later went on to receive her Master in Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking at Yale in 2014.[6] Casteel participated in several group exhibitions while at Yale, including 13 Artists, a historic show curated by then-classmate Awol Erizku.[7]

Casteel has lupus and has noted that the condition was especially difficult during her graduate studies.[2]

Work

After graduating from Yale, Casteel moved to New York City to pursue painting. Casteel's first solo exhibition in New York, titled Visible Man, opened in August 2014 at Sargent's Daughters.[8] The show featured a number of large-scale paintings depicting mostly nude black men seated in various spaces throughout their homes.[9] The show explored the balance between sexuality and sensuality, both in her subjects and the viewers.[9]

Casteel was selected as a 2015-2016 artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, alongside EJ Hill and Jibade-Khalil Huffman.[10] The program gives artists a year-long studio space, fellowship grant, stipend for materials, and group exhibition that includes all of the artists-in-residence.[6][11]

Casteel's second solo exhibition, titled Brothers, opened in October 2015 at Sargent's Daughters.[12] The show contained eight large-scale paintings of dual-portraits and were produced as part of a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “Process Space” on Governor’s Island.[13][14] Curator Johanna Fateman reviewed the work favorably, noting of Casteel's figures that, "she achieves their diorama-like magnetism with subtle perspectival distortions and a synergy of textures."[15]

In December 2016, ARTNews announced that Casteel had been signed to Casey Kaplan gallery.[16]

Casteel's third solo exhibition, Nights in Harlem, opened at Casey Kaplan in September 2017.[17] The show continued her exploration of black male subjectivity but positioned her subjects in "complex interiors and urban environments."[18] The show was met with critical praise; in New York magazine, critic Jerry Saltz wrote, "Casteel seems prepared to take a rightful place on the front lines of contemporary painting," and writer Tausif Noor wrote in Artforum, "Casteel navigates her terrain with ease, lightness, and empathy."[19][20]

Casteel’s first major solo exhibition at a museum will be held at the Denver Art Museum, opening on February 2, 2019, and will feature approximately thirty paintings spanning over four years from 2014 to 2018. Curated by the Denver Art Museum’s own Rebecca Hart, the Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, the exhibition will also have its own catalog, the first solo publication to collect Casteel’s work thus far. [21][22]

Themes and style

Casteel's practice explores humanity, sexuality, identity, and subjectivity.[23] Casteel has almost exclusively painted black subjects, often in varying skin tones based on the light surrounding the sitter from the photographs she takes of her sitters. Subjects have been painted in varying shades of browns, greys, lime greens, navy blues, and light oranges.[24]

Casteel's painterly approach and bold use of color have been compared to painters Jacob Lawrence, Nancy Spero, and Henri Matisse.[8] Casteel's figurative works have also been compared to New York artist Alice Neel.[25]

Teaching

Casteel is Assistant Professor of Painting in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University - Newark.[26]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 2019[27]
  • Nights in Harlem, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, 2017[28]
  • Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC, 2017[29]
  • Brothers, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY, 2015[30]
  • Visible Man, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY, 2014
  • The Gaze, The Study, Aisling Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2014

Selected group exhibitions

  • Regarding the Figure, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2017[31]
  • Occupancies, 808 Gallery, Boston University Art Galleries, Boston, MA, 2017[32]
  • Man Alive, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, 2017[33]
  • Intimisms, James Cohan, New York, NY, 2016
  • Imitation of Life, HOME, Manchester, UK, 2016[34]
  • That's On Me, Paris Blues, Harlem, NY, 2015
  • Sargent's Daughters, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY, 2014
  • 13 Artists, Curated by Awol Erizku, Yale School of Art, Alternative Space, New Haven, CT, 2014[7]

References

  1. ↑ "ABOUT". Jordan Casteel. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  2. 1 2 "Jordan Casteel Googled 'Best MFA Program.' Four Years Later, the Yale Grad Is a Rising Art Star". artnet News. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  3. ↑ "Jordan Casteel — Art21". Art21. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  4. ↑ "Jordan Casteel". Art21. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  5. 1 2 "Jordan Casteel – Creative New York". Creative New York. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  6. 1 2 "Studio Museum in Harlem Announces Artists in Residence for 2015-16". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  7. 1 2 "Yale University Is Having Its First All-Black Art Show". Vice. 2014-04-17. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  8. 1 2 "Jordan Casteel - Exhibitions - Sargent's Daughters". www.sargentsdaughters.com. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  9. 1 2 "Jordan Casteel,". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  10. ↑ "Lea K. Green Artist Talk | Jordan Casteel". www.studiomuseum.org.
  11. ↑ "Meet Harlem's Newest Artists-in-Residence". Creators. 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  12. ↑ "Jordan Casteel - Exhibitions - Sargent's Daughters". www.sargentsdaughters.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  13. ↑ "Jordan Casteel, "Brothers"". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  14. ↑ The Editors of ARTnews (2015-10-13). "9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week". ARTnews. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  15. ↑ Fateman, Johanna. "Jordan Casteel at Sargent's Daughters". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  16. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (2016-12-15). "Casey Kaplan Now Represents Jordan Casteel". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  17. ↑ "Jordan Casteel: Nights in Harlem | Casey Kaplan". caseykaplangallery.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  18. ↑ "New American Paintings". newamericanpaintings.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  19. ↑ Saltz, Jerry. "Three-Sentence Reviews: Peter Saul, Trevor Paglen, and 7 More". Vulture. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  20. ↑ Noor, Tausif. "Jordan Casteel at Casey Kaplan". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  21. ↑ https://www.jordancasteel.com/upcoming. Retrieved 2018-07-16. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  22. ↑ https://denverartmuseum.org/article/press-release/denver-art-museum-presents-first-major-museum-exhibition-dedicated-jordan-casteel. Retrieved 2018-07-16. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  23. ↑ "Post-Black Art in the Age of Hip-Hop". Vice. 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  24. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (2016-12-15). "Casey Kaplan Now Represents Jordan Casteel". ARTnews. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  25. ↑ "Jordan Casteel,". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  26. ↑ "Profile: Jordan Casteel | Rutgers–Newark Colleges of Arts & Sciences". www.ncas.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  27. ↑ "JORDAN CASTEEL RETURNING THE GAZE". Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  28. ↑ "Jordan Casteel: Nights in Harlem | Casey Kaplan". caseykaplangallery.com. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  29. ↑ "Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes". The Gantt Center. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  30. ↑ "Jordan Casteel - Exhibitions - Sargent's Daughters". www.sargentsdaughters.com. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  31. ↑ "Regarding the Figure". Studio Museum.
  32. ↑ "Occupancies | Boston University Art Galleries". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  33. ↑ "Man Alive | MARUANI MERCIER". maruanimercier.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
  34. ↑ "Imitation of Life: Melodrama and Race in the 21st Century - HOME". HOME. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
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