乔丹-卡斯特尔 画家

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Jordan Casteel
Painter | Class of 2021
Capturing everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.


Portrait of Jordan Casteel

Title
Painter
Location
New York, New York
Age
32 at time of award
Area of Focus
2-D Visual Art
Website
jordancasteel.com
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Published September 28, 2021
ABOUT JORDAN'S WORK
Jordan Casteel is a painter capturing moments of proximity with people and environments she has encountered on the streets of Harlem, within the New York subway, in her classrooms, and in the spaces occupied by those closest to her. Her paintings depict, in luminous hues and nearly life-size proportions, people of color and landscapes that convey relationships of mutual respect and care that extend beyond the canvas.

Casteel often centers her subjects in forward-facing, seated positions. The intimate bond formed between artist and sitter is revealed from the self-possessed expressions of her subjects, which invite a direct connection with the viewer. The paintings are pieced together from multiple photographs that reference a shared moment in time, during which relationships are cultivated that continue to flourish long after the work is completed. This practice can be witnessed when sitters and their family members participate in museum exhibitions of works that bear their names as titles—Yahya, Q, Yvonne and James—ensuring that they are seen as collaborators in the composition of each painting. The works in Casteel’s Visible Man series (2013–2014) redirected the gaze of all-too-common depictions of Black men in media. Her intensely personal and emotionally resonant renderings of male nudes highlight her subjects’ vulnerability and affirm their individuality. Casteel also invites the viewer to consider “Blackness” as a concept and social construct through her experimental use of color. Her figures’ skin often glows with patches of red, yellow, lavender, or pink, complementing their vibrant surroundings. The Baayfalls (2017) is a painting from a later series focused on the streets of Harlem. It features Fallou Wadje, a Senegalese-born designer who sold her hats and jewelry outside of the Studio Museum of Harlem, and her brother Baaye Demba Sow, a member of the Baye Fall Brotherhood—a Sufi Islamic sect. Casteel reverentially attends to each detail of the pair’s boldly patterned clothing and to Fallou’s hand gesture signifying Allah. Originally painted on a six-by-seven-foot canvas, the portrait was recreated as a massive public mural for display along the High Line in New York.

Other recent works, which feature students and family members in settings of their choosing, expand upon Casteel’s commitment to broadening whose likenesses appear in museum and gallery spaces. By honoring the surroundings and people that she sees day-to-day, Casteel prompts viewers to meet the gaze of others and to recognize our shared humanity.

BIOGRAPHY
Jordan Casteel received a BA (2011) from Agnes Scott College and an MFA (2014) from Yale University. From 2016 to 2021, she served as an associate professor of painting in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University at Newark. Casteel has presented solo exhibitions at the New Museum in New York, the Denver Art Museum, and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Denver Art Museum, CO; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, NC; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY.



乔丹-卡斯特尔
画家｜2021级
在作品中捕捉与人和地方的日常接触，邀请人们认识我们共同的人性。


乔丹-卡斯特尔的画像

标题
画家
地点
纽约，纽约
年龄
获奖时为32岁
重点领域
二维视觉艺术
网站
jordancasteel.com
凯西-卡普兰画廊。乔丹-卡斯特尔
社会
脸书
脸谱网
推特
发表于2021年9月28日
关于乔丹的作品
乔丹-卡斯特尔是一位画家，她在哈莱姆区的街道上、纽约地铁里、她的教室里以及她最亲近的人所占据的空间里，捕捉与人和环境接近的瞬间。她的画作以明亮的色调和近乎真人大小的比例，描绘了有色人种和风景，传达了相互尊重和关怀的关系，并延伸到画布之外。

卡斯特尔经常把她的对象放在朝前的坐姿上。艺术家和坐着的人之间形成的亲密关系从她的主体的自我定位的表情中透露出来，这使得她与观者有了直接的联系。这些画作是由多张照片拼凑而成的，这些照片提到了一个共同的时间点，在这个时间点上培养的关系在作品完成后还会继续发展。当拍摄者和他们的家庭成员参加以他们的名字为标题的作品的博物馆展览时，可以看到这种做法--Yahya、Q、Yvonne和James--确保他们被视为每幅画作的合作者。卡斯特尔的《看得见的人》系列（2013-2014）中的作品重新定位了媒体中对黑人男子的所有常见描述的目光。她对男性裸体的强烈个人化和情感上的共鸣的渲染，突出了她的主体的脆弱性，肯定了他们的个性。卡斯特尔还邀请观众通过她对颜色的实验性使用，将 "黑人 "作为一个概念和社会结构来考虑。她的人物的皮肤经常发出红色、黄色、淡紫色或粉红色的斑点，补充了他们充满活力的环境。Baayfalls》（2017年）是后来的一个系列的画作，专注于哈林区的街道。它的主角是Fallou Wadje，一个塞内加尔出生的设计师，在哈莱姆工作室博物馆外出售她的帽子和珠宝，以及她的兄弟Baaye Demba Sow，一个Baye Fall兄弟会的成员--一个苏菲伊斯兰教派。卡斯特尔虔诚地关注着这对夫妇大胆图案的衣服的每一个细节，以及法鲁象征真主的手势。这幅画最初画在一块六乘七英尺的画布上，被重新制作成一幅巨大的公共壁画，沿着纽约的高线展示。

其他最近的作品，以学生和家庭成员为主角，在他们选择的环境中，扩大了Casteel的承诺，即扩大在博物馆和画廊空间出现的肖像。通过尊重她每天看到的环境和人，Casteel促使观众去迎接他人的目光，并认识到我们共同的人性。

个人简历
乔丹-卡斯特尔在艾格尼丝-斯科特学院获得学士学位（2011年），在耶鲁大学获得艺术硕士学位（2014年）。从2016年到2021年，她在罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校的艺术、文化和媒体系担任绘画副教授。卡斯特尔曾在纽约新博物馆、丹佛艺术博物馆和斯坦福大学Iris & B. Gerald Cantor视觉艺术中心举办个展。她的作品被以下机构永久收藏：阿拉斯加水晶桥美国艺术博物馆、科罗拉多州丹佛艺术博物馆、纽约大都会艺术博物馆、加州洛杉矶当代艺术博物馆、纽约现代艺术博物馆、纽约古根海姆博物馆、佛罗里达州迈阿密佩雷斯艺术博物馆、北卡罗来纳州杜克大学纳舍尔艺术博物馆、田纳西州孟菲斯布鲁克斯艺术博物馆、明尼阿波利斯艺术学院和纽约哈莱姆工作室博物馆。