Casey Kaplan
Jordan Casteel | 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
We are thrilled to congratulate Jordan Casteel on the incredible achievement of being named a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. The MacArthur Fellowship is awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to extraordinarily talented and creative individuals as an investment in their potential.
Casteel has established a figurative language saturated with the presence of her subjects, whose invisible energy she captures through gestural brushwork and bold swathes of color. Depicting people and landscapes within and around her community, Casteel takes up questions of subjectivity and representation by examining the gestures, spaces, and forms of non-verbal communication that underpin the genre of portraiture.
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