Jordan Casteel presents In bloom, an exhibition of nine figurative and landscape-based oil paintings. 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. Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA for Studio Art (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). In 2020, Casteel presented a solo exhibition titled Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, in conjunction with a fully illustrated catalogue published by the institution. 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. JORDAN CASTEEL: IN BLOOM ✨ @jordanmcasteel @caseykaplangallery ✨ 1-2. WOVEN 2022 OIL ON CANVAS 36 X 30" / 91.4 X 76.2CM 3-4. SUNSET 2022 OIL ON CAVAS 50 X 40” / 127 X 101.6CM 5. MARISA, ISABEL AND SAGE 2022 OIL ON CANVAS 94 X 80” / 238.8 X 203.2CM 6-7. DAMANI AND SHOLA 2022 OIL ON CANVAS 90 X 78” / 228.6 X 198.12CM 8-9. MORGAN 2022 10. Gallery View. #caseykaplangallery #jordancasteel #oilpaintings #saintfleurinc #harlem #selfreflection #landscape #peopleofcolor #everevolving #flowoftheseason #stilllifecomposition