![Installation view of displayed artwork titled SHIELD I](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/63d58c8dc14dbbaac350b1e770675c5b34182995-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
Featuring four bodies of work, the show connects Barbara Kasten's little-known sculptures from the 1970s to her most recent output. 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.
Works
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled SHIELD I](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/63d58c8dc14dbbaac350b1e770675c5b34182995-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled SHIELD IV](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/559961fae5780ed62e12713c6d80912668f95f2b-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
SHIELD IV, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled SHIELD II](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/5af75187e44413e3ec55cf8124648395049a44bd-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
SHIELD II, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled SHIELD III](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/78d95550c0d111a05b48a4aac87076c60c5ec321-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
SHIELD III, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled PLAN 1-C](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/0e5b13054ee0483cefdc409f24c0c51ce6aedac5-1600x1237.jpg?w=800)
PLAN 1-C, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled PLAN 1-A](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/e5900d7a912c3387f0afacb563669baa2ee8a933-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
PLAN 1-A, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled PLAN 1-B](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/edefe79bdf24f0580bad85080df3adab229c99ab-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
PLAN 1-B, 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Reconstruction (Diamond)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/068fa74800d312f334f1f8f8cbe0e62c86093c0d-1600x1237.jpg?w=800)
Reconstruction (Diamond), 1974-2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Photogram Painting Untitled](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/c2ffa881ee3cc06c4f1669116d2b8589f61ceb1c-1600x1237.jpg?w=800)
Photogram Painting Untitled , 1977-2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Reconstruction (Pouf)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/27f123f1bc5753e285bf6a0192ec73a07d3031e8-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
Reconstruction (Pouf), 1974-2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Reconstruction (Lama Glama)](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/0d79eb3c804e23255b0acb3f97c93f184510f9e5-1600x1236.jpg?w=800)
Reconstruction (Lama Glama), 2022
![Installation view of displayed artwork titled Photogram Painting Untitled](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/mnub8q5m/production/5e1cadee888902b7cc512e8359cbed0eae0fcda9-1600x1237.jpg?w=800)