Lisson Gallery

James Casebere

James Casebere’s pioneering work has established him at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography. Over the past forty years Casebere has devised increasingly complex models and photographed them in his studio, creating photographic tableaux that subtly lay bare their own devices to inhabit the gap between abstraction and image, painting and photography. Casebere’s works have progressively depicted a wider perspective: the surrealist domestic scenes and claustrophobic vistas of his early pieces gave way to hauntingly evocative architectural interiors and exteriors of building typologies found both in the United States and the Middle East, while his Duchess County series (begun in 2009 and still ongoing) takes an aerial perspective of an entirely made-up, though acutely plausible community. Creating simulacra that revise and usurp reality to expose what art historian Hal Foster considers “a psychopathology of everyday life”, Casebere’s scenes are profoundly ambiguous yet politically pointed, chronicling our times through images of unpeopled spaces and landscapes that convey a deep disquiet.


Casebere was born in 1953 in Lansing, Michigan, USA and currently lives and works in New York, NY, USA. His work has been associated with the Pictures Generation of postmodern artists who emerged in the 1980s, which included Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2009 landmark exhibition of that name. Major solo exhibitions have been staged at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and  BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. His work is also featured in museum collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, USA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK; Tate Collection, London, UK, among many others. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grandstand

James Casebere
Grandstand

2016

Fine art pigment print 200.6 x 331.5 cm 79 x 130.5 in

Sea of Ice

James Casebere
Sea of Ice

2014
Digital fine art pigment print

99.1 x 129.5 x 5.7 cm 39 x 51 x 2.2 in

Trees and Bushes in Snow 2

James Casebere
Trees and Bushes in Snow 2

2014

Digital fine art pigment print 85.1 x 60.3 cm 33.5 x 23.7 in

Untitled 5

James Casebere
Untitled 5

2014

Digital fine art pigment print 109.22 x 83.82 x 3.49 cm 43 x 33 x 1.4 in

Falling House with Fire

James Casebere
Falling House with Fire

2013

Framed Fine Art Pigment print mounted to Dibond 121.9 x 147.6 cm 48 x 58.1 in

Party at Caffey's Inlet Lifesaving Station (Dare County, NC)

James Casebere
Party at Caffey's Inlet Lifesaving Station (Dare County, NC)

2013

Archival pigment print 82 x 103.5 x 5 cm 30 X 38.8 x 2 in

Caffey’s Inlet Lifesaving Station (Dare County, NC)

James Casebere
Caffey’s Inlet Lifesaving Station (Dare County, NC)

2013

Fine art pigment print 81.9 x 116.8 cm 32.2 x 46 in

Dusk on Exeter Road

James Casebere
Dusk on Exeter Road

2013

Fine art pigment print 81.9 x 121.3 cm 32.2 x 47.7 in

Big Sur

James Casebere
Big Sur

2013

Framed Fine Art Pigment print mounted to Dibond 127 x 166.7 x 5.1 cm 50 x 65.6 x 2 in

Cloudy/Sunny Skies

James Casebere
Cloudy/Sunny Skies

2013

Digital archival inkjet print 79.4 x 66 x 5.1 cm 31 x 26 x 2 in

Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #4

James Casebere
Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #4

2010

Framed digital chromogenic print mounted to Dibond, glazed with Mirogard Plus glass 61 x 79.7 cm 24 x 31 in

Classroom, Casa del Fascio

James Casebere
Classroom, Casa del Fascio

2005

digital chromogenic print 182.9 x 228.6 cm 72 x 90 in

Exhibitions

  1. James Casebere

    James Casebere

    26 November 2015 – 15 January 2016

  2. James Casebere: Credit, Faith, Trust

    James Casebere: Credit, Faith, Trust

    7 September – 1 October 2011

  3. James Casebere

    James Casebere

    12 November – 20 December 2003

  4. James Casebere and Gaylen Gerber

    James Casebere and Gaylen Gerber

    12 September – 12 October 1996

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