Jordan Casteel Paints Her Community | Art21 "New York Close Up"
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Where does a painter find her subject matter?
With a process that takes her from the streets of Harlem to her studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn, artist Jordan Casteel paints vibrant large scale portraits, making visible the often unrepresented humanity of Black men. At first struggling to find subject matter that could speak to the political realities of police violence and implicit bias, Casteel drew inspiration from her twin brother. "People follow me like I’m a threat," the artist remembers her brother saying, "but they don’t know anything about me."
Together Casteel's paintings illustrate the multiplicity of Black male experience; she began with nudes in domestic interiors before expanding to men on the sidewalk, the color and compositions celebrating the visual texture of her Harlem neighborhood. Casteel's work is probing in its tender depiction of Black men who, although often strangers to the artist, gaze directly and intimately out at the viewer.
The film follows Casteel as she travels from a brunch at her aunt's Harlem home to a studio visit with university students, to an informal hangout with friends and finally back to the streets of Harlem, mirroring the artist’s own navigation of New York's diverse racial and cultural spaces. Recognizing her complex position as a Black woman painting the bodies of Black men, Casteel nevertheless feels present in the work.
"I get really conscious [of the fact that] his story is not mine to tell," says the artist of her brother. "[I've] seen him as this really funny, sensitive, charismatic, loving young man...And as a result, this work really comes from my desire to share what I have known with the world."
Featuring footage from the Studio Museum in Harlem’s exhibition "Regarding the Figure," and the Sharpe-Walentas studio residency in DUMBO.
Jordan Casteel (b. in 1989, Denver, Colorado) lives and works in New York. Learn more about the artist at: art21.org/arti...
CREDITS | "New York Close Up" Series Producer: Nick Ravich. Director: Orian Barki. Editor & Cinematography: Orian Barki. Additional Camera: Sam Balaban & Tom Kneller. Sound: Taeer Maymon. Design & Graphics: Open. Artwork Courtesy: Jordan Casteel. Music: UNRTHDX. Thanks: Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Marcia Cantarella, Phoebe Collings-James, Naima Green, Casey Kaplan, Chalia La Tour, Wayde McIntosh, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, The Studio Museum of Harlem, Korde Tuttle, Didier William. © Art21, Inc. 2017. All Rights Reserved.
"New York Close Up" is supported, in part, by The Lambent Foundation; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; VIA Art Fund; Lévy Gorvy; and by individual contributors.
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This segment was awesome. So wonderful to see her both in action (shooting references & painting) and in reflection on her work. Her art is what all identity/political art should strive towards- work that expresses and explicates humanness and individual consciousness in the immediate.
What a great painter. Really lovely tones and colours. The subject matter is true and something we need more of in 'fine art' galleries.
Goobstation 4
I want to ring that wonderful woman's phone to hear the trump song!
Some of this woman’s awesome work is now on display at the Canter Center in Palo Alto, CA. It is a must that you check it out if you can.
Great video... Great figurative abstract style
great work... positive messages in a negative time...
Jordan, thank you for sharing your story and your amazing art! Also, that ring tone was amazing!!!! Wouldn't it be amazing to create ringtone "art" from strong women.
refreshing attitude and lovely person and artist. Thanks for sharing.
I love her work!!!
#ScottyNation! So proud of you sis!
Her work is beautiful! I love that she is very honest and open about using her family for inspiration in her art work. I wonder if both of her parents are of African decent.
Great work!
Love this
Love your work! Beautiful! I would to buy that ring tone too!
her stuff Is great, she shouldn't care what others think. Once she starts making art for other people it will start to suck
man shes code switching heavily haha
The photos were good but the paintings felt extremely hollow.
What's the song they are listening to 6:06?
Reese Dummer bit late but it’s ‘Oogum Boogum Song’ by Brenton Wood
@@raekwon6864 Thank you you're my hero
All politics, no art.
Raymond Abbott so you think art isn't also about politics? Where have you been the last few hundred years?
That poor poor woman . They removed Trump and look at what they got.
Trump 2020 let’s keep America great again.
what a basket of lame cliches.
wtf
So her brother is a criminal who's in jail and she's making excuses for it. Argh!
Is that what you picked up from this video? That's it? She thinks the bullying that her brother was at the receiving end of when he was young may have shaped his adult life. That's making an excuse? Or is it a part of recognizing a part of the causes that shape all human life?
Beyond your narrow minded nonsense you can't appreciate a woman trying to make sense of her life and the life of her brother. It doesn't matter what kind of judgmental BS you peddle; if you can't put even basic effort to understand what it means to be a human being your a waste of space.
I was bullied when I was a child and I didn't turn out to be a criminal. Is that amazing?
Of course not, because not being a criminal is an obligation for every decent person, not an achievement. No society will ever thrive by rewarding criminals and those who most deserve condemnation.
So your that guy huh..you have a problem with her discussing blackness so you pick apart her words and then erect a strawman argument. She wont see your comments, and it wouldn't change her work if she did so why comment? God you anti types are triggered, and want to be offended so fucking bad
Walter Anderson 👏