Jordan Casteel

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In episode 73 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews one of the most trailblazing artists alive today, JORDAN CASTEEL !!!!!!! [This episode is brought to you by Alighieri jewellery: www.alighieri.co.uk | use the code TGWA at checkout for 10% off!] Born and raised in Denver and now based in New York City, Casteel is hailed for her portraits and landscapes imbued with expressivity and authenticity, gestural brushwork and bold swathes of colour, which capture the fleeting and very real moments of life, closeness, and honest relationships. Since receiving her BA from Agnes Scott College, Georgia for Studio Art in 2011, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, 2014, the past seven years for Casteel have been monumental. In 2020, she presented a critically-acclaimed major solo exhibition titled “Within Reach,” at the New Museum, New York; and other recent institutional solo exhibitions include “Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze,” presented at both the Denver Art Museum, CO (2019), and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA (2019–20). In recent years, she has participated in exhibitions at institutional venues such as SF MoMA; Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Crystal Bridges; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MoCA Los Angeles, CA (2018); The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2017 and 2016), where between 2015–16 she participated in their prestigious residency programme, among many others. Casteel’s paintings have graced the front cover of American Vogue, Time Magazine, and in 2019 were blown up to 1,400 square foot for Manhattan’s High Line. As of 2021, Casteel is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. But the reason why we are speaking with Jordan today, in London I might add, is because she has just unveiled one of the most hotly anticipated exhibitions of the year, and her first ever UK solo exhibition at Massimo De Carlo: “There is a Season”, a show focussing on the minutiae of daily interactions, conversations, and connections, which embraces the ebb and flow of lived experiences, articulated by the rhythmic tick of time, which I cannot wait to find out more about… FURTHER LINKS! https://www.massimodecarlo.com/exhibition/521/there-is-a-season http://www.jordancasteel.com/ https://caseykaplangallery.com/artists/casteel/ https://www.instagram.com/jordanmcasteel/?hl=en https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class-of-2021/jordan-casteel https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/jordan-casteel-within-reach LISTEN NOW + ENJOY!!! Follow us:Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hesselSound editing by Nada SmiljanicResearch assistant: Viva RuggiArtwork by @thisisaliceskinnerMusic by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to season six of the Great Women Artist podcast. In this series,
0:06.4	I am so excited to be continuing my partnership with the brilliant Allegieri Jewelry, who have
0:11.6	been supporting the GWA podcast for the last year and a half. Alighieri Jewelry creates imperfect
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0:22.4	from the darkness of Inferno to the light of Paradiso. At the beginning of his journey,
0:27.9	Dante enters the silver oscura, the dark wood and is confronted by a lion, so terrifying
0:33.4	that even the air around him is trembling with fear. Scared and alone, Dante feels like giving up on his journey.
0:40.4	It is at this point, Virgil, his guide, appears and gives him the strength to continue.
0:45.7	Female founder, Rosh Matarly, created the Leone Medallion, inspired by this story,
0:50.5	as a reminder to be strong in difficult times.
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0:55.5	for strength and courage on all of your adventures. Visit www.alegieri.com for more. And just
1:02.2	for our listeners, they are offering 10% off with the code TGWA at checkout. I hope you
1:08.3	enjoy this episode.
1:10.9	Thank you. at checkout. I hope you enjoy this episode. Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:21.0	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in
1:25.0	October 2015, which celebrates female artists on a daily basis,
1:29.6	ranging from young graduates to old masters. Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram,
1:35.4	this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:41.3	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists,
1:45.7	writers, curators or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them. What I want
1:51.5	this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities so you, the listener,
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