amycaseypaint

12:54 pm - arts collinwood show

( some images from the show )

Current Mood: busy

12:06 pm

I was voted best visual artist by Cleveland Scene Magazine readers. Thanks!  I don't know that I agree, but it was a nice surprise.
Take a gander at other winners and the magazine choices .

Current Mood: okay

08:23 pm - book covers

My work was featured on a couple of awesome books this year, for anyone looking for books to curl up with in the coming winter:

Daniel Hoyt's Then We Saw The Flames



The book, a collection of 13 short stories, is reviewed here and here


also,

John Gallaher's Map of the Folded World



This book of poetry is reviewed here and here

John has a blog at http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/

Current Mood: cheerful

11:22 pm - new american paintings

woo hoo!

New American Paintings

Current Mood: chipper

11:04 am - general news update

This has been a busy and trying summer and autumn! Lots of cool projects and some terrible colds and allergies! here's the sum up of recent news:

The solo show at Zg Gallery has been extended to the end of October, so if you are around Chicago and haven't been to see the show, be sure to stop by and say hi to Ms. Sheehy and Ms. Casis if you get a chance. They have an updated book from the show you can see here.

In Ohio right now I am or will be showing in a few different places:
I am in the Cleveland Arts Prize Winners Collaborative over at Convivium 33, a beautiful space in a renovated church located at 1433 East 33rd Street.  The show features current and past Cleveland Arts Prize winners, so I am in great company. It runs until October 25, 2009

I am in a group show called Terra Non Firma featuring some great artists working with the landscape in one form or another:Hilary Aurand, Judith Brandon, Jerry Birchfield, Kristin Bly, Andy Curlowe, Peter Gent, Megan Herwig, Jess Langley, Mark Keffer, Matt Kolodziej, Christine McCullough, Josh Rex, Alex Tapie and Douglas Max Utter.
The show is a collaboration between east and west  Cleveland as Legation, a gallery at 1300 West 78th St. joins forces with Front Room Gallery located at 3615 Superior Avenue 4203A and is open through Nov 28, with a closing reception on the 28th from 6-9pm

 I am in a show with my friend Judith Brandon at Bayarts Gallery in Bay Village where I am showing mostly etchings and a couple of paintings and Judy is showing her beautiful paintings. The show is open until Oct 31.

In November, I will be showing some of these prints at the Massillon Museum in Massillon, Ohio along with some fellow Zygote Press Members. The exhibition focuses on women printmakers producing art as part of printmaking cooperatives. The show runs Nov 1- January 3. Speaking of Zygote, don't forget their benefit Art oberfest on Oct 30.

Also in November, I will be showing with Jen Omaitz  at Arts Collinwood, in Cleveland opening Nov 9th.

I am also gearing up for my first solo show with Michael Rosenthal  which should be opening January 16th.

In other news, I will be included in the Midwest issue of New American Paintings #83 and  my painting 'Dangling' is actually on the cover.
Also included is Cleveland artist Randall Tiedman. Woop woop! It should coming soon to select bookstores near you.

Current Mood: okay

03:33 pm - Chicago, Delaware..

I've been painting up a storm to get ready for my Sept 11 opening in Chicago.

The show will be called Uncertain times and it will be at Zg Gallery.
Right now I feel uncertain that I will finish everything I want to get done for the show on time.  but usually about a month before a show, I have to start dissolving my delusions of grandeur and focus on what I can really accomplish without breaking some  laws of physics.

I did get a chance to see the American Scene Exhibition at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art which I was in. It just closed August 2nd. My work was right next to Meagan Shein's, who I was lucky enough to meet there at the reception.  Her work is really beautiful, and Meagan is great, and even kind enough to drop me off at the train station afterwards.
I think the show was very interesting and well put together. Wilmington is a funny little town, I was wandering downtown before the reception getting drizzled on for awhile, having been stupid enough not to get proper directions from the Amtrack. A kind hotel worker set me on the right track after getting about a mile in the wrong direction! I have no internal compass.

06:45 pm - oh forgot

this is the painting i have at POV. my first piece on panel since what seems like a million years ago.

06:42 pm - showing this weekend

HI Everybody!
I'll have work at the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland this weekend only!

A contemporary multi-media exhibition of work produced by established regional artists, curated by Dana L. Depew. Dana Depew was allocated an abandoned radio station to transform into a work of art. Each artist was given a space to turn into an installation or exhibition.

Located in Gallery X at 1516 Euclid Ave., across from the Ohio Theatre

Participating artists include: R Ferris, Matt Bartel, Jason Byers, Bruno Casiano, Sarah Paul, Pedro Dell, Matthew Dibble, Terry Durst, Jeffry Chiplis, Amy Casey, Dana L. Depew, Loren Naji, Joe Fruce, Susan Danko, Dan Tranberg, Carol Hummel, Ron Gundel, Paul Sydorenko, Douglas Max Utter, Stephen Yusko, Sunia Boneham and Michael Di Liberto, Julius Lyles, Bill Radawec, James March, Raw Umber, Robert Banks, Terry Clark II, Liz Maugans, Bob Walls, Robert Bucklew, Dave Cintron, Kelly Hayes, Maria Miranda, Dana Oldfather, Joshua Rex, Thom Rossino, Chris Kaspar, Yvonne Bakale, Michael Greenwald, Peter Green, Michelle Murphy

Current Mood: busy

02:20 pm

Oneof my paintings is included in an online publication called Sixth Finch. check it out!

12:13 pm - interview

Jessica at the Shiny Squirrel blog did a little interview with me..she has been doing a series of short interviews with artists that includes a little glimpse into their studios.  Fun stuff..

Shiny Squirrel

11:54 am - upcoming show in Cleveland

nice to rejoin the world again! Been ridiculously busy ! (possibly because I am not such a great time manager)

I am all ready for the group show "There goes the Neighborhood" at The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in which I will have 6 paintings, 4 of them brand spanking new.

The artists in the show besides me are:
Willie Birch, Kristin Bly, Cao Fei, Dionisio Gonzàlez, Leslie Grant and Nina Pessin-Whedbee, Matthew Kolodziej, Eva Struble, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Catherine Yass

Matthew Kolodziej and Kristen Bly are also based in Cleveland.


I updated my website finally if you care to see the new work: www.amycaseypainting.com/2009

The show at MOCA Cleveland opens June 5th, if you are reading this in Cleveland and want to stop by.

Also I am pleased to say that I was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize this year as an emerging artist.  I am proud to represent! yay Cleveland!

Current Mood: happy

10:27 pm

working on some larger things in the studio! very early stage!




detail. the pencil is actually much lighter so it will come off the paper later, but its hard to see in a picture unless you mess with the contrast.
i dont always draw things in before painting, i think i just got carried away!

still working on printmaking, getting really close to actually finishing something ! really!

Current Mood: busy

10:41 pm - kittens and things

Did I mention I use a space heater in my studio? Leave for one minute and find no room left on my chair. The piece the girls are usurping space in front of is one of two pieces that will be at Aqua Art Miami this coming weekend where I will be showing with McCaig Welles and Rosenthal.

Also I am included in a group show at Zg Gallery called Infrastructure running November 28- January 3.

( a finished pic of the above piece and cat shenanigans behind cut. )

Current Mood: cold

07:10 pm - POV and stuff

here's the show at the pov evolving gallery in Los Angeles. It will be up until December 30 if you are about LA and get a hankering for some art.
( a few pics... )

Current Mood: pleased

06:49 pm - LA show

hi peeps.. getting ready for the show in LA at POV Evolving gallery. The great folks there are producing a limited edition print of a new piece. The print is 14 x 20 and $150..it's a limited edition of 25 prints.
please check it out here:

http://www.poveditions.com/home.php?id=56

The show will open November 15 at POV Evolving Gallery at 939 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012, if anyone happens to be in Los Angeles.

There is a preview of the show here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/jeremymora/AmyCaseyPOVevolvingGallery#

just about to run to the hardware store. i hope everyone is doing fantastic!

Current Mood: awake

01:22 pm - whiskey island/kansas

I'm pleased to have some of my work included in the recent double issue of Whiskey Island magazine, a literary magazine put out by Cleveland State University. I havent gotten to see a copy yet but i see the cover is rocking a painting by my friend Judy Brandon, so I know I'm in good company there.


http://www.csuohio.edu/class/english/whiskeyisland/current.html

There seems to have been a teeny misunderstanding about my titles- I think jpg titles must have been used instead of the actual painting titles-at least as they are listed on the website, but ah well. This goes to show I should be more mentally organized and more strict about renaming files before sending them out!

In other news, the Kansas City show:Parallax is coming right up:



Amy Kligman put the card together, I think it's lovely.

now im working hard to finish work for the show in Los Angeles in Nov. i'm painting bricks in my dreams, people.

Current Mood: determined

02:33 pm - changes

i was looking through some pictures on my computer and found an early version of fences. this painting is a good example of how much a painting can change as it goes along.
this early beginning(the brown at the bottom and the black are just paper taped on for composition help)


turned into

Current Mood: sleepy

07:25 pm - fancying up my studio

i found that the easy way to alleviate my knee pain was to buy a desk and a chair. go figure! here's my studio now(well, now-ish, this was taken a couple months ago):

the stripes on the left wall were there before i moved in)
some before pictures for reference of how far I've come:
( beware, cat pictures ahead )

Current Mood: silly

04:29 pm - FAVA

things have been pretty quiet, but lots of steady work to do and exciting things coming up. next(current!) show is at FAVA in Oberlin:



please note poor Glenn's name is not Greg, unless he's taken a fancy exhibition name. It's correct on the back of the card, not pictured
a bit more about the show is here:
http://www.favagallery.org/Landscape%20show.html

i'm gonna try to get to the reception on Sunday(August 17, 2-4 p.m)
I don't know John Benton, but Glenn's awesome. he really knows his way around a printing press.

in other news i have a painting on the latest edition of Pleiades, a literary tome of creative writing and criticism/review. i've been paging through it when i have moments.
i was interested in writing as a profession for a long time as a child until i went down that more practical road of painting. i think i made the right decision, or perhaps it was made for me. reading always has been an important part of my existence though. i think that was passed to me from my mother, who always seems to be in the middle of two or three books.



more about Pleiades:
http://www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/currentissue.html

02:24 pm - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

finally dropped off the work for the show in Pittsburgh. to finish up framing and painting and such i was up about 56 hours straight. im quite proud that i didnt stab myself with anything while framing artwork when about 97% delerious. anyways, no more of that tom foolery.




im trying to make it to the reception on the 12th.

upcoming stuff in: chicago, oberlin, kansas city and los angeles. stay tuned.

Current Mood: silly