“Barbara Kasten ‘Stages’ and ‘Diazotypes’ Launch at the Graham Foundation.” Artbook/DAP. By: Cory Reynolds. (September 25, 2015.) http://www.artbook.com/blog-event-kasten-diazotypes-graham-foundation.html

 

Barbara Kasten ‘Stages’ and ‘Diazotypes’ Launch at the Graham Foundation By Cory Reynolds Sept. 25, 2015 Thursday, October 1 from 5-7PM, The Graham Foundation opens the Chicago leg of Barbara Kasten: Stages, the first major survey of the artist's work. In conjunction with the exhibition opening, the Graham Foundation and D.A.P. Publishing will launch Barbara Kasten: The Diazotypes—a special small-run artist book of Kasten's diazotypes, a body of work she created while living in California in the 1970s, using a process commonly employed to create architectural blueprints.

Please join the Graham Foundation for the reception, with opening remarks by Barbara Kasten and curator Alex Klein. Spanning Kasten's five-decade engagement with abstraction, light, and architectural form, Barbara Kasten: Stages explores the artist's expansive photographic practice and highlights her critical engagement with architecture and her impact on a new generation of artists. Barbara Kasten: Stages is presented in partnership with the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Barbara Kasten: Stages October 1, 2015 - January 9, 2016 Opening Reception, Thursday, October 1, 5-8PM (Please RSVP) 5PM: Comments by Barbara Kasten & Alex Klein, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place Chicago, IL 60610, US