On today's A Portfolio, we look at the moody, noirish paintings of Jordan Kasey. What we love is how she conveys such a mood with these anonymous figures. The Brooklyn-based painter has shown with Nicelle Beauchene in the past, showing The Storm there in 2021, writing "Kasey is equally invested in playing with painting as a medium to broaden our language for experiencing color, light, and space within images. Recently, the artist has articulated this experimentation by building planes of highly varied texture. Surfaces—like that of an armchair, pants and socks, a blanket or a halter top—are delineated through impasto and the continuous, deliberate layering of paint."
Jordan Kasey (b. 1985) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Kasey has exhibited work at Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (2020, 2018); Capsule, Shanghai (2019); Carl Kostyál, Malmö (2019); Signal Gallery, Brooklyn (2018, 2016); Kate MacGarry, London (2018); MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2017); White Cube, London (2017); and Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn (2016), among others. Her works can be found in the Collezione Marimotti, Italy and the Zabludowicz Collection, London.
