Jordan Kasey at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery

Like Fernando Botero’s swelling human figures, Jordan Kasey’s monumental painted bodies transport viewers out of the everyday.  Kasey’s figures, however, have the ponderous heaviness of stone enlivened by a sometimes-electric color palette, a dynamic that gives her massive paintings unique energy.  (On view at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery on the Lower East Side through March 17th).

Jordan Kasey, The Play, oil on canvas, 66 x 72 inches, 2018.