Printed Matter is thrilled to participate in NADA Miami presented by The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), December 1–5, 2020. The 18th edition of the fair will showcase an international series of presentations from a diverse roster of 47 NADA Members and 27 first-time exhibitors for a total of 97 galleries from 44 cities, both in gallery spaces and online. For this occasion, Printed Matter is launching a new fundraising edition by Barbara Kasten.

The online and in-person presentation features a selection of Printed Matter’s recent publications including No New Theories by Kameelah Janan Rasheed and A Mistake is Beautiful Thing, published in collaboration with LA-based Coloured Publishing (Yuri Ogita and Devin Troy Strother).

Additionally, we will be presenting recent fundraising editions by artist Farah Al Qasimi, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Cauleen Smith, and Didier William.

Visit our store at 231 11th Ave, New York, NY, 10001, to see these works on display alongside over 40,000 artists book titles!

Composition PM/XX, 2020 is a new work by artist Barbara Kasten. Soft shadows and reflections are created by the careful staging and layering of vividly colored translucent acrylics. The artist’s interplay between three dimensionality and flatness is an important element in her process of photographic abstraction. The edition comes with a generous mat—a framed point of entry into another world—which Kasten describes as “a little jewel-box”, furthering her interest in perception and scale.

Purchase edition here.

Barbara Kasten was born in 1936 in Chicago, Illinois. Her work explores abstraction, materiality, architecture, and the interaction of light and shadow through photographic and installation works. Kasten’s most recent work is on view in a major solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum through April 2021. Also this year, she had a comprehensive solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany which was accompanied by a new publication. In 2015, a survey of Kasten’s work was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and travelled to the Graham Foundation in Chicago and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum in New York, Centre Pompidou, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. among many others. Kasten currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. 

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