Popular painter Jordan Casteel has joined the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery while also remaining at Casey Kaplan.
Since 2016, Jordan Casteel has been represented by Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York, where she will continue to be represented. However, she will also be represented now by Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, which has spaces in London, Seoul, Paris, and Salzburg. Current details suggest that Casteel would be represented mostly in the London space. She will debut in the London space in April with a set of new paintings. However, she will also have her first solo exhibition in Europe at Thaddaeus Ropac’s Paris location sometime later in the year.
Born in 1989 in New York, Jordan Casteel is known for large-scale stylistic portraits. She uses photographs of people as a reference, mostly from the African-American background. Speaking of her representation, Thaddaeus Ropac said: “Jordan Casteel stands out in her generation of painters for her extraordinary acuteness of observation and empathetic treatment of her subjects. A magnetic sense of proximity and directness defines her painterly approach, as she intimately captures their humanity and personal spheres. She questions how to be seen and how to represent, reflecting on interconnectedness, belonging, and identity.”
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Currently, Jordan Casteel’s works are part of the traveling exhibition “The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” which has appeared at the National Portrait Gallery (London) and Philadelphia Museum of Art and would open at the North Carolina Museum of Art next month. Previously, she was represented by the Massimo De Carlo Gallery since 2021.
