Inspired by his surroundings in downtown Los Angeles, he paints vibrant portraits of strangers and acquaintances, stirring up references from Manet and Matisse to Beckmann and Basquiat. In 2007 he held his first solo museum show at the Studio Museum in Harlem. 1958) graduated in 1995 with a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Who? After a string of odd jobs (including 10 years spent working as a psychiatric nurse at a state hospital), Henry Taylor (b. If you like this artist you might also enjoy: Nicolas Party, Dana Schutz, Loie Hollowell Recent exhibitions: The Baayfalls, The High Line, New York, 2019 Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 2019 Within Reach, The New Museum, New York, 2020-21. It was only the second work by the artist, who had just turned 30, to appear at Christie’s. Lot 1, Patrick and Omari, her double-portrait from 2015, was fought over by nine bidders before selling for £299,250 against an estimate of £40,000-60,000. In March 2019, Casteel was the breakout star of Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction. ‘My intent is to highlight the magic of our existence as black bodies, and the physical spaces we occupy,’ she explains. Her rich, sensitive portraits are inspired by artists ranging from Jacob Lawrence to Kerry James Marshall and Alice Neel.
Four years later she graduated from Yale School of Art and exhibited her works in a critically-acclaimed solo show at Sargent’s Daughters gallery in New York. 1989) typed ‘Best MFA programme’ into Google. Who? In 2010 the Colorado-born Jordan Casteel (b.
0 kommentar(er)
