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James  Casebere:   Prison (Sing Sing)
 
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Artist: Casebere James
Title: Prison (Sing Sing)
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 1990s
Medium: Photographs, Prints, Other, Waterless Lithograph
Year: 1993
Size: height - 18 in, width - 22 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, in pencil on lower right recto.
Edition: 23/24
Foundry/Publisher: 21 Steps Editions
Estimate: from $1,200 to $1,800

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James Casebere. Prison (Sing Sing), 1993. Waterless Lithograph. 18 x 22 inches. 47.75 x 55.9 cm. Edition: 23/24. Signed in pencil on lower right recto.

James Casebere was born in 1953, in Lansing, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 where he studied with the sculptor Siah Armajani. In the fall of 1977, he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and then moved to Los Angeles where he studied with John Baldessari and Doug Huebler. He received an M.F.A from Cal Arts in 1979.

Casebere's work has established him at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography. His first exhibitions in New York were at Artists Space, Franklin Furnace and then Sonnebend Gallery. His work was associated with the “Pictures Generation” of “post-modern” artists who emerged in the 1980’s. For the last thirty years Casebere has consistently devised increasingly complex models and photographed them in his studio. His table-sized constructions are made of simple materials, pared down to essential forms. Casebere also made large scale sculpture installations.

Early bodies of work focused on images of the suburban home, followed by both photographs and sculptural installations dealing with the myth of the American West. In the early 1990s, Casebere turned his attention to the development of different cultural institutions during the Enlightenment, and their representation as architectural types. With his photographs of prisons in particular, he critically addressed contemporary attitudes and approaches to incarceration, as well as metaphorically pointing to relationships of social control, and social structure in the broader society.

Since the late 1990s he has made images whose sources span the globe starting with the bunker under the Reichstag (Flooded Hallway), and the sewers in Berlin (Two Tunnels). He created a body of work referencing the Atlantic slave trade, including a slave factory in West Africa (Four Flooded Arches), plantations in the West Indies (Nevision Underground), Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and other 18th century American colonial architecture. The modern architects Victor Horta and Richard Neutra inspired him to create another small, austere group of works that seem to cast a critical eye on the homogenizing effects of globalization.

After 9/11 Casebere turned his attention toward Spain and the Eastern Mediterranean. Several works examine 10th century Andalusia and the flowering of culture and co-operation between Islamic, Jewish and Christian cultures before the Inquisition (La Alberca, Abadia, Spanish Bath, Mahgreb). Other images depict Tripoli, Lebanon, Nineveh and Samara in Iraq, and Luxor, Egypt. Several photographs of models of mosques were inspired by the 16th century Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan.

Casebere is the recipient of numerous fellowships including three from the National Endowment for the Arts, three from the New York Foundation for the Arts and one from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Casebere lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, with his wife Lorna Simpson and their daughter Zora.[jamescasebere]
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  • History & Provenance
    • Provenance:
      Private Collection


      Publications:
      The architectural unconscious : James Casebere + Glen Seator / essays by Adam D. Weinberg, Mark Wigley, and Anthony Vidler. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 22 April-31 July 2000, and theInstitute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 May-29 July 2001. Andover, Mass. : Addison Gallery of American Art, c2000.

      Vidler, Anthony. James Casebere / Anthony Vidler, Christopher Chang & Jeffrey Eugenides. Milan : Charta ; London : Art Books International, 2001.

      Casebere, James. James Casebere : asylum / comisariado de Michael Tarantino, Donna Lynas. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, May 12-July 25, 1999, and at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Jan. 24-Apr. 4, 1999. Santiago de Compostela : Xunta de Galicia, 1999.

      Casebere, James. James Casebere, model culture : photographs 1975-1996 / foreword by Andy Grundberg ; essay by Maurice Berger. Catalog of an exhibition at the Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, Aug. 14-Oct. 20, 1996 and Williams College Museum of Art, Aug. 16-Oct. 26, 1997. San Francisco : Friends of Photography, in collaboration with Galleria Galliani, Genoa [and] Lisson Gallery, London, c1996.

      Casebere, James. James Casebere / essay by Roberta Smith. Catalog of an exhibition held at University of South Florida Art Museum, Jan. 21-Feb. 25, 1989 ; and at Neuberger Museum of Art, June 28-Sept. 10, 1989. Tampa, Fla. : University of South Florida Art Museum, [1989].

      Cross-references : sculpture into photography : James Casebere, Bruce Charlesworth, Bernard Faucon, Ron O’Donnell, Sandy Skoglund, Boyd Webb. Minneapolis, MN : Walker Art Center, c1987.

      Casebere, James. In the second half of the twentieth century-- / James Casebere. Buffalo, N.Y. : CEPA Gallery, c1982.
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    Swann Galleries:
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    Swann Galleries:
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  • James Casebere
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    platinum print
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    Christie's New York:
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    Sold for US $3,600

    Phillips de Pury & Company New York:
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