November 19, 2011 – January 7, 2012 Gallery Luisotti is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Barbara Kasten: Experimental Photography from the 1970s, opening November 19th. Kasten’s early concern with the interplay between sculpture, light, and installation in her art mirrored the greater interest of the then burgeoning California light and space movement arising in [...]
ineluctable 9 September – 22 October 2011 Press Release ineluctable -unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable Barbara Kasten’s newest series of abstract photographs records the consequential traces of light upon large-scale assemblages composed for the camera. Instead of using photography as record or reference, the physical object, which is the transparent Plexiglas plane, becomes [...]
June 30 – August 4, 2011 Dana Hoey, Barbara Kasten, Allizon Katz, Alex Kwartler, Miranda Lichenstein, Andrew Masullo, Rebecca Morris, Mariah Robertson, Dan Torop, Roger White Friedrich Petzel Gallery 535 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011 www.petzel.com
Distilled Moments: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection May 28 – September 18, 2011 This exhibition of 20th-century still life paintings and photographs, beginning with Pierre Bonnard’s Flowers in a Pitcher, produced in the early years of the 20th century and ending with Guillermo Srodek-Hart’s Gauchito Gil Sanctuary in 2006, hints at the range and [...]
24 June – 13 August 2011 Tony Wight Gallery is pleased to present Untitled Document, an exhibition of works by Andrew J. Greene, Barbara Kasten, Josh Kolbo, Nazafarin Lotfi, Sean Raspet, David Schutter, and Justin Swinburne. The exhibition will be on view from 24 June – 13 August 2011 Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday [...]
Polaroid [Im]possible at Weslicht 17.06.2011 – 28.08.2011 When the legendary Polaroid Collections of Europe & the USA were put on the market by the liquidators dealing with the assets of the insolvent company and they were going to be auctioned off by Sotheby’s New York, this caused a public outcry on the international photography circuit. [...]
A Matter of Perspective May 14- June 25, 2011 Galerie Kadel Willborn Hirschstraße 45 76133 Karlsruhe Germany Barbara Kasten’s photographs do not narrate and document stories, instead, they are a “print” of the abstract features of light and shadow. In the 1970s she began experimenting with photochemical reactions and photograms, which she painted over using [...]
Remix—Barbara Kasten w/ Lucky Dragons March 12 – May 31, 2011 Opening Reception: Friday, March 11, 6-8pm Hours: Every following Friday and Saturday, 1-5pm and by appointment 845 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60607 Applied Arts is excited to present a multi-channel video installation by Barbara Kasten featuring sound by Lucky Dragons. Barbara Kasten is [...]
Barbara Kasten, Construct VI-B 1981 Barbara Kasten and Alexandra Leykauf 27th January – 26th February 2011 Carl Freedman Gallery 44a Charlotte Road, London www.carlfreedmangallery.com The montaging of history and place is at the heart of Alexandra Leykauf’s practice. Pictorial compositions are made through the juxtaposition or superimposition of photographic reproductions or photocopies of source photographs [...]
Cornell Fine Arts Museum Organized by Aperture Foundation January 14 – March 27, 2011 From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer, showcases the work of more than twenty contemporary photographers who base [...]
3 October 2010 – 20 February 2011, “Immaterial,” Curated by Fairfax Dorn Ballroom Marfa’s Fall exhibition, Immaterial, will focus on the physical and psychic tensions between form, color and space across varied visual and structural mediums. The exhibition seeks to examine the metaphysical aspects of artistic production through a selection of artworks that challenge the [...]
“Just a Matter of Time” July 4 – September 4, 2010 Allan McCollum, Barbara Kasten, Jimmy Robert, Katja Strunz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jennifer West The sequence of individual actions results in a specific present time. Past actions are part of this present, which is itself merely a passage to the future. In different ways, the artists Barbara Kasten, [...]
Barbara Kasten – “Abstracting…Light” May 6 – June 22 2010 Organized in collaboration with Olivier Renaud-Clément Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Barbara Kasten in France in twenty years, “abstracting… light”. With this exhibition she continues the ongoing research residing at the core of her practice since the 1970s: [...]
In a Paperweight Walead Beshty, Sebastiaan Bremer, Daniel Gordon, Tamar Halpern, Barbara Kasten, Sara VanDerBeek and James Welling 16 April – 15 May 2010 Opening Reception: 16 April, 5–8pm “Death exists—in a paperweight, in four red and white balls on a billiard table—and we go on living and breathing it into our lungs like fine [...]
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty Sheree Hovsepian Barbara Kasten Opening Reception: Saturday, March 20, 4-7pm Monique Meloche 2154 W. Division (New Location) Chicago, IL 60622
Let There Be Geo Curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain March 4 – April 24, 2010 Opening reception: March 4, 5-8 pm Let there be Geo takes a contemporary look at visual artists who use geometric form in their work. While geometric form is not a new phenomenon, geo forms are appearing in some of the most [...]
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970 – 1980 Cincinnati Art Museum, February 13 – May 9, 2010 Garish, pedestrian and commercial – that’s how critics characterized color photography in the 1970s. It was in fact an explosion of color and the beginning of a new form of art. Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980 is [...]
SHADOW = LIGHT January 16 – March 13 Gallery Luisotti Tuesday – Saturday, 10:30-6pm at Bergamot Station 2525 Michigan Ave. bldg a2 Santa Monica CA 90404 In her latest exhibition, Kasten traces back to a familiar theme that has informed her practice since the 1970s: the interplay between light and form. The exhibition will feature [...]
“Through a Glass Darkly” is a new trans-media, site specific installation in which Kasten explores her relationship to the phenomenology of light in the process of image-making. This is a partial view of the installation at SubCity Projects.