Excerpt from the article in Architectural Digest, Daily Ad by Hannah Martin, February 9, 2015
“Artist Barbara Kasten’s abstract geometric photographs gained traction amid the spirited postmodernist climate of the 1980s. Mashups of color, shape, and shadow, the pictures represented sculptural assemblages of objects and props in a two-dimensional format. Now, in “Barbara Kasten: Stages,” the first monographic exhibition of her work, approximately 80 pieces from the 1970s to the present are on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. The show traces the artist’s early cyanotypes and works in fiber to her more recognized photo constructs and set design pieces, many of which have found inspiration in modern and contemporary architecture…”