ArtReview
Barbara Kasten, With a Sea View
“The artist’s sculptural installations in Site Lines at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, capture the impermanence of the visible.”
The Guardian
‘Bewilderingly evanescent’: how a darkroom allergy made Barbara Kasten see the light
“The 88-year-old Chicago artist takes photography to a whole new level – as her new East Sussex show, which uses fluorescent panels to sculpt with colour, proves.”
Recessed Space
Barbara Kasten in Bexhill: postmodern play in Mendelsohn’s modernism
“Celebrated American artist Barbara Kasten, who has played with architectural space, form, and material for six decades presents her work in the De La Warr Pavilion, an early moment of modernism in the UK. Her work is an interplay of form, material, and representation, and here plays her postmodern, conceptual work against the formality of an architecture key to her reading of space. Will Jennings visited to see how the bright, playful, and irreverent sculpture landed in the Pavilion.”
The New York Times
An Abandoned School Becomes a Canvas for Art Galleries
“Six galleries bought a 22-acre property in upstate New York that they are calling the Campus. Its first exhibition begins June 29.”
Louisiana Channel
Barbara Kasten: Light is the Essential Element
“Artist Barbara Kasten has been experimenting with photography since the early 1970s. Watch her show and explain how she works with everything from fluorescent plexiglass to materials she finds in the hardware store.”
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ARTnews
Anonymous Was A Woman Names 2023 Winners, Including Artists Dindga McCannon, Carolina Caycedo, Barbara Kasten, Amanda Ross-Ho
“Anonymous Was A Woman, the grant-making nonprofit that has awarded over $7 million to women-identifying artists since 1996, has named the 15 winners of its 2023 grants. Each recipient will receive an unrestricted prize of $25,000 each. This year’s winners, who are nominated and then selected by a five-person jury (both anonymous), range in age from 42 (Brooklyn-based Steffani Jemison) to 87 (Chicago-based Barbara Kasten), with five artists being in their 40s. Typically, AWAW gives out ten awards annually, but this year three of the prizes were funded by Meraki Artist Award, an initiative by an anonymous Boston philanthropist, while the other two by anonymous donors.”
Museé Magazine
Barbara Kasten: Architecture and Film (2015–2020)
“… In all her works, from the blue meditations of the 1990s to the chromatic installations and films since 2015, the consistent thread remains her phenomenological approach to abstraction. Kasten’s exploration of light, space, and architecture is intrinsically interwoven, leading to a unique visual language that encapsulates the tangible and intangible elements of human experience. She captures how light travels through architecture, how it reflects, refracts, and sculpts spaces, and consequently our perception of them. In the end, her work emerges as an ode to the sensory journey that light takes through architecture and film, illuminating the ways in which art can redefine our relationship with the world.”
Artnet News
87-Year-Old Artist Barbara Kasten on How Her New Career-Defining Monograph Shows She’s More Than Just a Photographer
“Barbara Kasten’s best-known work is, in a sense, all about flattening. So good is she at this technique, though, that her successes have had a flattening effect on how her work has been received, understood, and supported. Fortunately, a new monograph from Skira looks to expand the narrative around the now 87-year-old artist.”