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Barbara Kasten. SHIFT
Exhibition
Barbara Kasten. SHIFT
3 Mar 2022 – 30 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 39 Walker Street
- New York
New York - 10013
- United States
Bortolami is pleased to present SHIFT, Barbara Kasten’s sixth exhibition with the gallery. Featuring four bodies of work, the show connects her little-known sculptures from the 1970s to her most recent output.
About
Each artwork is tied to her experimentation with fiberglass window screening, a material she began using in the early 1970s and throughout her forty-year career.
Initially trained as a painter in the 1960s, Kasten shifted to textiles in her graduate years in the 1970s studying with renowned fiber artists Trude Guermonprez and Magdalena Abakanowicz. Window screening, a ubiquitous and utilitarian industrially-produced woven material, presented myriad possibilities. Taken by its physical nature and optical effects it produces when lit, Kasten also used the material as a basis to create not only sculptures but also her ethereal cyanotypes in the 1970s, another medium she has revisited intermittently over the last few decades.
