Jordan Casteel, one of the most vibrant and exciting artists working today, has all but conquered the American art world. What comes next? rgay reports
Photo: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. In the fall, Jordan Casteel was finishing the paintings for her solo show “There Is a Season,” a series of portraits, still lifes, and landscapes at the Massimo De Carlo gallery in London. Casteel, who lives in New York, is one of the most vibrant and exciting artists working today, known for her bold use of color, her arresting portraiture, and her massive canvases that demand space. In the U.S.
That night, Casteel lay in bed a bit panicked. “That was weird,” she said to Schulze. She was used to her show openings in New York, which felt like celebrations, gatherings attended by her supporters and everybody she’d ever painted. But when she woke up the next morning, she thought, Fuck yeah. I’m glad there’s a space for me to still feel this. “Because I shouldn’t feel like I conquered it all, not at 32,” she says. “This trip showed me how naïve I am.
That respect permeates all her figurative paintings. In 2014, for her first solo exhibition, “Visible Man,” Casteel painted portraits of Black men in the nude in their homes. Each image is hyperrealistic, the background rendered with the same care and attention to detail as the foreground. In Elijah, a man sits on his bed, and at the periphery of the image, we see a desk holding a glass of water and a prayer candle.
This inclination became higher stakes as her name soared to prominence in the U.S. Starting in 2018, Casteel began showing her work at prestigious institutions across the country, from the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles to the Denver Art Museum. Then, at the start of 2020, she staged her first solo show at the New Museum, where she exhibited nearly 40 paintings spanning her career.
The Carolinas, 2021. Photo: © Jordan Casteel, Courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York, Photo: Jason Wyche These days, Casteel is splitting her time between an apartment in Harlem she shares with Schulze and a home upstate, a small farmhouse that sits on three acres of land. She is building a new studio and tending to a verdant garden. She is channeling her love of making into gardening and baking, activities in which her hands are active but the stakes don’t feel so high.
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