amycaseypaint

arts collinwood show

2009-11-10T18:03:04Z

pictures courtesy of jen omaitz!

amycaseypaint @ 2009-10-24T12:06:00

2009-10-24T16:12:23Z

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 .

book covers

2009-10-22T00:57:31Z

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/

new american paintings

2009-10-15T03:34:01Z

woo hoo!

New American Paintings

general news update

2009-10-13T15:13:26Z

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.

Chicago, Delaware..

2009-08-08T19:55:12Z

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.

oh forgot

2009-07-09T22:50:21Z

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

showing this weekend

2009-07-09T22:46:43Z

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

for more info

Anniversary Show at POV Evolving! opening this weekend!

amycaseypaint @ 2009-06-26T14:20:00

2009-06-26T18:22:15Z

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

interview

2009-06-17T16:41:24Z

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

upcoming show in Cleveland

2009-05-28T16:19:39Z

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!

amycaseypaint @ 2009-02-10T22:27:00

2009-02-11T03:49:43Z

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!

kittens and things

2008-12-03T04:16:30Z

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.

i attempted to herd the cats out of my chair by taking lots of pictures of them which usually scatters them

but as you can see, franks was less than impressed with this maneuver:

this is frankie's strange turkey yoga position.

if i had time i'd totally photoshop her snores into the last picture in a voice bubble.

POV and stuff

2008-11-29T00:43:49Z

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.

proof that i actually got my dupa across the country. this was right before the opening.
thanks to awesome shannon/sherms who let me stay with her. i never noticed how transparent that shirt is until i saw this picture. maybe i need better lights at home.

heres a shot from inside. i like the space. if only i knew how to do cartwheels.

sherms took me to the ocean and i got this hat for sue.

LA show

2008-11-01T22:59:59Z

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!

whiskey island/kansas

2008-10-01T17:57:59Z

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.

changes

2008-08-28T19:16:01Z

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

fancying up my studio

2008-08-15T00:09:51Z

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

me in knee pain sitting where my desk now sits(i also like the stilt through the head effect. i'm a wild and crazy guy, i guess)

frankie contemplating an unfinished city calm down

i think wanda kind of enjoyed it:

although the desk has it's perks too:

not a great picture, but that's because she always scuttles out when i pull out the camera:

now you can also see why i never display my working drawings/notes

FAVA

2008-08-10T20:46:11Z

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

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2008-07-01T18:34:01Z

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.

amycaseypaint @ 2008-04-24T10:42:00

2008-04-24T15:03:37Z

trying hard to hit deadlines, so have been trying to keep my online procrastinating to a minimum. That includes emails, so I apologize!

the SPACES show opened last Friday, thanks to everyone who stopped by! If you missed it, there's still plenty of time-the show will be up until July 6. There are some interesting things in the show! I will have to go back and look at it again since the opening was kind of busy.

Artists besides me include Jake Beckman (New York, NY, multi-media), Jiří Černický (Prague, Czech Republic, multi-media), Todd DeVriese (Lubbock, TX, mixed media), Claudia Esslinger (Gambier, OH, multi-media), Kevin Everson (Charlottesville, VA, film), Colette Gaiter (Newark, DE, photography), Billie Grace Lynn (Coral Gables, FL, installation), Pipo Nguyen-duy (Oberlin, OH, photography), Patrick Robideau (Buffalo, NY, installation), and Karen Yasinsky (Baltimore, MD, drawing and animation). There's a nice little reference page here:
http://www.spacesgallery.org/08_Livinginyourimagination/08_Livinginyourimagination.htm

And Douglas Max Utter wrote up a nice article on the show if you still aren't convinced:
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/51/finding-the-future

2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH 44113

Gallery Hours
Tues - Thu 11-5:30
Fri 11-7
Sat 11-5:30
Sun 1-5

www.SPACESgallery.org
info@SPACESgallery.org
216-621-2314

My work was featured in the local literary magazine MUSE, which is available at Mac's backs in Coventry.

The nice folks at the New York Times contacted me about including a painting on their Op ed page, which ran last week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/opinion/14leamer.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Next upcoming exhibitions are the July group shows at Moxie Dada in Pittsburgh and Zg Gallery in Chicago.

Happy Spring Everyone! I can't wait to tool about in my garden!

amycaseypaint @ 2008-03-10T00:25:00

2008-03-10T04:27:52Z

i know i have to properly update my website, unfortunately i just haven't had a lot of spare time lately.

here's a painting i just sent in the mail to Louisiana:

i hope it got through the blizzard okay! tons of snow is very encouraging to stay inside and paint.

some upcoming shows that i'm included in:

March 20- April 25 2008
21st Annual McNeese National Works on
Paper Exhibition at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

April 18-july 6, 2008
Living in Your Imagination: SPACES 30th Anniversary at SPACES gallery

July 5- 26
URBANIC: Sightlines and Microchosms
at Moxie DadA in Pittsburgh, PA

Opening October 17
AmyCasey/AmyKligman/MinervaOrtiz @ Project Space, Kansas City, MO

i think thats quite enough to keep me busy at the moment!

also you can look out for me in the issue of hi-fructose coming out this month.
www.hifructose.com

i've got lovely dreams about things i'd like to try with my website, hopefully after i get things ready for the SPACES show.

amycaseypaint @ 2008-02-04T23:25:00

2008-02-05T04:38:07Z

i finished the couple of things im sending off to colorado. here's one of the paintings:

in real life it's whiter. i'm so freaking tired.
my new desk is awesome.

amycaseypaint @ 2008-01-15T21:13:00

2008-01-16T02:26:36Z

been feeling lazy. i doused my laptop with my painting water and now have to copy and paste every time i use the letter v. yep that was three pastings already. oh well.

otherwise things are well enough. Besides the White Walls show, I've got some work in a group show at Zg Gallery and the show at limited addiction is coming up in February . I have a few other things in the works that may or may not happen.
studio pics coming soon.

website updated

2008-01-05T09:34:48Z

even my mom knows it's time to finally update.

well i've been working doggedly for the past month to finish some paintings for the show at White Walls in San Francisco. http://www.whitewallssf.com/

all the new images are on the site, http://www.amycaseypainting.com/2007
but here's a couple to look at anyways:

house cluster 12 x 11.75

tiltawhirl 19.5 x 22

The other artists- Alex Lukas and Chris Pew look pretty awesome and I'm psyched about the show. I wish i could make it to the opening. jan 12

Alex Lukas
http://www.alexlukas.com/

Chris Pew
http://www.capsule9.com/

the ad has one of Alex's images, really nice:

i'm afraid i had to absorb myself so much to get things finished, i darn near neglected everything else- family, friends, my girls, the holiday season, sleep, correspondence and even personal hygiene. so i apologize for all that. really. happy new year everyone.