‘[Casteel] captures everyday encounters with people and places in works that invite recognition of our shared humanity.’ – MacArthur Foundation

The first monograph on Jordan Casteel, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working today

Jordan Casteel (b.1989 in Denver) is a New York-based artist known for her large-scale, figurative portraits and landscapes made with gestural brushwork and bold swaths of color.

From the New York City subway and the streets of Harlem to the woodlands of Upstate New York, Casteel has established a collaborative practice where individuals she has encountered over the course of her daily life are represented in their element, generating an experience that is at once intimate and collective.

Casteel's debut monograph features nearly 150 beautifully reproduced images, with sections specially conceived and designed by the artist herself.

As featured in Harper’s Bazaar

‘Reveals an artist who luxuriates in the color and materiality of her medium, while foregrounding the lives and visibility of Black individuals in her orbit. It’s the perfect gift for any fan of portraiture or aficionado of rich, rapturous painting.’ – Hyperallergic

‘For the bibliophile in your life.’ – Whitewall

‘This stunning art book will make [a] great gift.’ – Bookshop.org

Legacy Russell is a curator and writer based in New York, where she is Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Kitchen.

Asma Naeem is Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Katherine Brinson is Daskalopoulos Curator for Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.