2001-2
As the title of the exhibition suggests, "hanker" (to long or crave), Casis' paintings flirt with the viewer, inciting a desire for identification of form yet giving the freedom to fantasize. The artist is intrigued with the moment when image recognition becomes a challenge and delivers the unexpected. Her new body of work continues to question how knowledge, memory, and environment affect how we see what we see.
Taking freely from benign to charged images, Casis creates paintings which exploit and transcend their associations. For her inspiration, the artist taps into the fertile ground of popular culture including animation, fashion, and objects from everyday life, and infuses them with flurries of swirling lines and bright, saturated color to stimulate a hyperconscious state. With canvases dense and thick with marks and strokes sculpted from paint, Casis masterfully creates wild, interlacing forms that mutate, ooze, and burst into visceral juxtapositions. The resulting images engage us, counter our expectations, pushing for interpretation and contextualization, blurring formal painting concerns into a new and exciting tension.
Taking freely from benign to charged images, Casis creates paintings which exploit and transcend their associations. For her inspiration, the artist taps into the fertile ground of popular culture including animation, fashion, and objects from everyday life, and infuses them with flurries of swirling lines and bright, saturated color to stimulate a hyperconscious state. With canvases dense and thick with marks and strokes sculpted from paint, Casis masterfully creates wild, interlacing forms that mutate, ooze, and burst into visceral juxtapositions. The resulting images engage us, counter our expectations, pushing for interpretation and contextualization, blurring formal painting concerns into a new and exciting tension.
