Jordan Casteel was born on 1989 and is an American figurative painter.
19 Facts About Jordan Casteel
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Jordan Casteel has a twin brother and an older brother.
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Jordan Casteel was named after Vernon E Jordan Jr, who succeeded her grandfather Whitney Young as head of the National Urban League and was a close family friend.
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Jordan Casteel's grandmother was Margaret Buckner Young, an educator and children's-book author.
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Jordan 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.
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Jordan Casteel went on to receive her Master in Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University in 2014.
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Jordan Casteel participated in several group exhibitions while at Yale, including 13 Artists, a historic show curated by then-classmate Awol Erizku.
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In 2020, Jordan Casteel painted a portrait of fashion designer Aurora James for one of the September 2020 covers of Vogue magazine.
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Jordan Casteel: Within Reach, her first major New York City museum solo show, opened in February 2020 at the New Museum.
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Jordan Casteel's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Jordan 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.
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The palettes Jordan Casteel develops in her work are both based on an obsessive relationship with color and vibrancy founded in her childhood, and a determination to push the boundaries of interpretation.
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Jordan Casteel's posing and gaze of the subjects in her paintings are just as integral as her relationship with color as she attempts to push the dialogue of blackness.
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Jordan Casteel's work comes from photographs she takes of her subjects.
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Jordan Casteel aims to nudge the viewer's thoughts considering what meaning lies behind being a black man in the US today.
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Jordan Casteel is an Assistant Professor of Painting in the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media at Rutgers University - Newark.
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Jordan Casteel lives in Harlem with her husband David Schulze, an Australian-born photographer she met on the dating app Raya.
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Jordan Casteel has lupus and noted that the condition was especially difficult during her graduate studies.
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Jordan Casteel has staged solo shows, exhibitions, and public art installations at galleries and museums in the United States.