Celebrated for her monumental portraits, Jordan Casteel has quickly become one of the defining painters of her generation. Casteel uses photography to make studies of her subjects—people she’s met in Harlem, or her art students at Rutgers University—who are then immortalized in charismatic colors. The camera is her “liaison” to an exchange of gazes, and each portrait becomes an evocative story about everyday life.
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