The Glass House presents Barbara Kasten: Structure, Light, Land

For five decades, Chicago based artist Barbara Kasten has created photographs and sculptural installations that reorient our sense of perception and explore the dynamic relationship between space, material and form. Her artistic influences are deeply rooted in modernist architecture, the principles of Constructivism, and the interdisciplinary legacy of the Bauhaus, particularly the photograms of László Moholy–Nagy and Lucia Moholy.

Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape.

“Placing my work in and around The Glass House campus is an opportunity for me to take on a canonical modernist site. Each of the structures of the grounds is like a monument to one of many aesthetic phases of architectural history. Abstraction allows us to consider possibilities that are not the norm.” – Barbara Kasten