Jacolby Satterwhite

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  print October 2018

  Jacolby Satterwhite

  MODERNISM was a continual reconfiguration of vision. Picasso and Braque fashioned representations of simultaneous perspective with Synthetic Cubism; Seurat embarked on a new method of painting that emphasized the viewer’s perception of form and color; Courbet took high-society painting and transmuted it for the middle class. Bruce Nauman pushed these ideas further, using the body and the negative space surrounding it as modernist objects, the materials that could be monitored, examined, and exercised, anticipating the self-measurement of social media. His Clown Torture, 1987, is a sharp precursor

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  slant November 03, 2016

  Pop Quiz: Jacolby Satterwhite on the election

  To coincide with the November issue of Artforum on art and politics, including special projects by Wolfgang Tillmans, Dread Scott, and Eileen Myles, artforum.com invited a small group to select an indelible image or video related to the election.

  Jacolby Satterwhite is an artist based in New York.

  For our special focus on art and politics in the November 2016 issue of Artforum, subscribe or read online at artforum.com.

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  print January 2015

  PORTFOLIO

  TRINA, THE RAPPER FROM MIAMI, is also known as the Diamond Princess, and her crystalline image is everywhere, from the fan site Oh-Trina.com to bottles of her namesake perfume. She is everywhere, in particular, in Jacolby Satterwhite’s new series of tableaux, “En Plein Air.” Endless iterations of her pneumatic figure populate galactic landscapes in glittery jewel tones, surrounded by renderings of other contorted, slickly muscled bodies—including that of Satterwhite himself. The bodies perch and sway on structures that resemble helicopters, subwoofers, monstrous networks of wires, splintering

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  print December 2014

  The Best Exhibitions of 2014

  TO TAKE STOCK OF THE PAST YEAR, ARTFORUM ASKED AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF ARTISTS TO SELECT THE SINGLE IMAGE, EXHIBITION, OR EVENT THAT MOST MEMORABLY CAPTURED THEIR EYE IN 2014.

  OSCAR MURILLO

  KIM GORDON

  LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ
  Broad City is the first TV show to fully exploit the comic potential of the gentrification of our minds.
  

  WOLFGANG TILLMANS

  LAURE PROUVOST
  This is an image from a book on Ferdinand Cheval’s Palais Idéal (1912). My family was recently seeking architectural inspiration for a museum that will be built when our lost granddad comes out of his conceptual tunnel. It has now been more than