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Making Art So Big It Can’t Be Ignored

VISUAL Posted: February 16, 2020 1:30 pm

Jordan Casteel paints portraits – huge portraits. And that means something to her subjects. “‘I knew I wanted to use this opportunity to place my mom and I in the art historical canon,’ said Emmanuel Amoakohene, one of Ms. Casteel’s students, who posed with his mother in 2019. The scale of the radiant, seven-foot canvas, he said, ‘makes me feel like I matter.'” – The New York Times

VISUAL Published: 02.14.20

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 02.14.20

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