GAME TIME NYC!!! 🌻 #Repost @caseykaplangallery ・・・ We are very excited to announce “Jordan Casteel: In bloom”, an exhibition of eight figurative and landscape-based oil paintings opening Thursday, September 8th, from 6-8pm, and on view at the gallery through October 22nd. Completed in 2022 amid the artist’s relocation to rural New York State, this body of work invests in the reciprocity between painter and subject through a renewed approach to community engagement and an increasingly poignant vantage point of self-reflection. The sensory influence of a landscape has the capacity to connect or divide us, to inform our movements through space and the manners in which we relate to our surroundings, and to one another. Casteel sources her subject matter from her own photographs of the people of color who share and shape an environment, directly informing her own accessibility to the collective experience. In a departure from the comforts of an inbuilt community, as portrayed in previous works ranging from the sidewalks of Harlem to the classroom at Rutgers University-Newark, the transition to a more secluded, sylvan landscape prompted a period of inner-contemplation that necessitated a new approach. Casteel took to social media to initiate an online discourse to connect with and act as a connector for people of color who resided in the area. The resulting forum encouraged discussion and mutual engagement; in turn, introducing the artist to Morgan, Damani and Shola, and Marisa, Isabel and Sage, who would later become the subjects of her paintings. Image: “Morgan” 2022 Oil on canvas 90 x 78" / 228.6 x 198.1cm #jordancasteel #inbloom #painting #soloshow #upcoming #caseykaplangallery @mackmamamiller 💚