An excerpt from PIN-UP Magazine’s online article Casting Light, February 11, 2015
“After a career spanning over five decades without a major survey show, artist and photographer Barbara Kasten is finally getting her place in the spotlight. “Barbara Kasten: Stages”, now on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia, is the first in-depth examination of the artist’s achievements, presenting around 80 works from the 1970s to the present. Kasten, who is now in her late 70s, has always skipped across disciplines: after studying painting and fiber arts in Arizona and California, in 1971 she moved to Poland to train with notable sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz…”