Stanley Casselman
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Stanley Casselman is a New York-based artist whose sumptuously calculated surfaces are motivated by a sense of awe and wonderment in the intangible spiritual elements of our being.
The known and speculative forces that create the lattice of our physical reality are what swim in the right side of his brain and the fundamental belief that absolute truth lies only within abstraction, occupies the left. Baroque yet highly calculated, his process towards picture making reveals itself through a spectrum of layers strokes and gestures exploring a range of emotions in an efficacious search for higher consciousness. Casselman is deeply committed to the notion that color, line, and form have the ability to change cognizance.
Casselman began painting on silkscreen in college in the early ‘80’s. The screen, a grid of essentially perfectly spaced fishing line, has opened a universe of possibility and many consider Casselman the pioneer within the medium. He deploys numerous inventive ways to manipulate pigment and often paints from the back side of the screen. His unique approach enables the capture or the freezing of energetic events on the verso. The imagery that’s revealed is what’s typically the underside of painting, the side that would be in contact with the substrate or the side which is normally hidden and never seen.
Casselman (b.1963) received his Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbijan and London, UK; Secci Gallery, Milan, Italy. His works are in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul.
The known and speculative forces that create the lattice of our physical reality are what swim in the right side of his brain and the fundamental belief that absolute truth lies only within abstraction, occupies the left. Baroque yet highly calculated, his process towards picture making reveals itself through a spectrum of layers strokes and gestures exploring a range of emotions in an efficacious search for higher consciousness. Casselman is deeply committed to the notion that color, line, and form have the ability to change cognizance.
Casselman began painting on silkscreen in college in the early ‘80’s. The screen, a grid of essentially perfectly spaced fishing line, has opened a universe of possibility and many consider Casselman the pioneer within the medium. He deploys numerous inventive ways to manipulate pigment and often paints from the back side of the screen. His unique approach enables the capture or the freezing of energetic events on the verso. The imagery that’s revealed is what’s typically the underside of painting, the side that would be in contact with the substrate or the side which is normally hidden and never seen.
Casselman (b.1963) received his Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbijan and London, UK; Secci Gallery, Milan, Italy. His works are in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul.
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