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Amy
Casey, "Critical Mass" solo show at Zg Gallery, Chicago |
STATEMENT: |
After any pendulum
swing of chaos grinds to a slow halt, there will come a time when you
will have to decide if you are going to wallow in the rubble or take
what remains and create a new empire.
Building upon
recent work, I have been in search of a solid ground. A bit less
kinetic than past work, I have been trying to take what was left of
the world in my paintings and create a stability of sorts, thinking
about community ties and the security (or illusion of security) needed
to nurture growth. Cities are fascinating creatures that I am just
beginning to scratch the surface of. The work and organization that
goes into a city’s creation and evolution, the constant shifting and
adaptations and the sometimes hidden history of these changes, and a
city’s dependence on civilian cooperation are things I like to think
about. Reflecting this interest, burgeoning cities have begun to fill
in the voids in my paintings. As in life, with a sort of trial and
error, some efforts work better in making the whole precarious heap
hum. I am consistently fascinated by the resilience of life and our
ability to keep going in the face of sometimes horrendous or
ridiculous circumstances. My paintings celebrate this fascination and
my love of the urban landscape. |
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RESUME: |
Education: |
1999 |
B.F.A.,
Painting major, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH |
1998
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Yale Summer
School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CT (summer) |
1992
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Pennsylvania Governor’s School of the Arts, Erie, PA (summer) |
1991-94 |
School of the Performing and Visual Arts, Erie, PA |
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Awards & Residencies: |
2021 |
TaipeiXCle Residency, Bamboo Curtain Studio, 2 month Artist Residency,
Taipai, Taiwan |
2020 |
The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, 3 month Artist Residency Program,
Taos, NM |
2019 |
Vermont Studio Center for Painting, Artist Residency, Johnson, VT |
2018 |
Vermont Studio Center for Painting, Artist Residency, Johnson, VT |
2017 |
Arteles Creative 1 month
Residency Program, Arteles Center,
Haukijärvi, Finland |
2015 |
Artist in Resident,
Rasmuson Foundation, 2 month Residency,
Bunnell S.
Arts Center, Homer, AK |
2011 |
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence
Award |
2010 |
Artist in Resident, F.A. Work
Center. 3 month Summer Resident, Provincetown, MA, OH Arts
Council |
2009 |
Recipient: Emerging Artist of the Year, Cleveland Arts Prize,
Cleveland, OH
Recipient:
Creative Workforce Fellowship,
Community Partnership for Arts & Culture, Cleveland, OH |
2007 |
Ohio Art Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, Columbus, OH
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Biennial 24, 1st
Place, Juror’s Award, South Bend, IN |
2006 |
Artist
in Resident, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
National Arts
Program Exhibition, Kelly Randall Gallery, 1st Place Award,
Best of Show, Cleveland, OH |
2005 |
National Arts
Program Exhibition, Kelly Randall Gallery, 1st Place Award,
Best of Show, Cleveland, OH |
2003 |
The Vermont Studio
Center, Full Fellowship Award, Johnson, VT
Erie Art Museum, 80th Annual Spring Show, Juror’s
Award, juror: James Yood, Erie, PA |
2002 |
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Kroger Award of Excellence,
Art on View, Juror’s Award, juror: Petra Fallaux |
2001 |
Erie Art Museum, 78th
Annual Spring Show, Juror’s Award, juror: Fred Wilson, Erie, PA |
2000 |
Katherine and Lee Chilcote
Foundation Award for New Work, Drawn Together |
1998 |
Ellen Battell
Stoeckel Fellowship- Yale Summer School of Art and Music
John Paul Wrobbel Painting Prize
Myrtle Waintrup Givelber Prize |
1997 |
Selma A. Walzer
Painting Scholarship |
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Solo Exhibitions: |
2022 |
Amy Casey, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
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2019 |
Amy Casey, Lost at the Bottom of the World, Zg Gallery,
Chicago, IL |
2018 |
Amy
Casey, A Forest of Uncertain Things, Foley Gallery, New York, NY |
2017 |
Amy
Casey, Critical Mass, New Paintings, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artists and Architecture:
Projection/Convergence/Intersection, Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, VA |
2016 |
Amy Casey, Hold On, New Paintings, Foley Gallery, NY, NY |
2015 |
Amy
Casey, Expansion, New Paintings, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2013 |
Amy Casey, Balancing New Growth, New Paintings, Foley
Gallery, NY, NY
Amy Casey, Putting Down Roots, New Paintings, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2012 |
Amy Casey, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Amy Casey, Building Towards a Solid Ground, Michael Rosenthal Gallery,
San Francisco, CA |
2011 |
"Boomtown,"
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL read reviews |
2010 |
"Amy Casey,"
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA |
2009 |
"Amy Casey," Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Uncertain Times,"
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL read reviews |
2008 |
"Amy Casey,
New Paintings,"
POV Evolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2007 |
"Things Fall Apart,"
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL read reviews
"Amy Casey &
Breehan James," Parish Hall, Cleveland, OH |
2006 |
Strange Days,
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Zygote Press, Cleveland OH |
2005 |
life as we
know it, Studio Warszawa Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
2004 |
Creeping
Through, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH |
2002 |
Amy Casey, New
Paintings, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH |
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Group Shows: |
2021 |
Joyride: Cars in
American Art from the Terry and Eva Herndon Collection, Fitchburg Art
Museum, Fitchburg, MA
Zg Summer Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Zg Spring Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2020 |
Zg Upcoming, Winter
Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
The New (ab)Normal, group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
State of the Art 2020, group show, Crystal Bridges Museum of American
Art, Bentonville, AR
4 Women, group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2019 |
Zg Summer Group Show,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Work@Play, group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Small Works, group show, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
Nature vs. Everything, group show, Lubeznik Center for the Arts,
Michigan City, IN |
2018 |
Paper or Plastic, Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL
A House is Not a Home, group show, Emily Davis Gallery, University of
Akron, OH
Urban Legends, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
CAN Triennial 2018, 78th Street tudios, Cleveland, OH
Zg Summer Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2017 |
Zg Spring Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago,
IL
Paper Please, group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Para-Natural World, group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2016 |
Contemporary Art Hatching, Traveling group show curated by C.
Bluestone,
Southern Ohio
Museum & Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH,
Columbus Art Museum, Columbus, OH and
Massillon Museum, OH |
2015 |
New American Paintings, Midwest
Edition, juried by Staci Boris, curator, Elmhurst Art Museum,
Elmhurst, IL
Zg Winter Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2014 |
"Rarely Home: Cathie Bleck
& Amy Casey," Marie Bell Art Projects, Cleveland, OH
Zg Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Space//Squared group show curated by
Sven Davis, White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2013 |
Obsessive Intricacies,
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Norwood & Underline Present, Underline Gallery, New York, NY
Zg Spring Group Show, Chicago, IL |
2012 |
Tale of Two Cities,
Reinberger Galleries, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Architectural
Deinforcement: Constructing Disaster and Decay, Cerritos College,
Norfolk, CA
Norwood
Club, New York, NY
Space/Form, group show, curated by Sven Davis, Breeze Block Gallery
Portland OR
Zg
Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Erie Art Museum, 89th Annual Spring Show, Juror’s Award, juror: Emily
Hubley, Erie, PA
Zg 10th Anniversary, group
show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Twin
Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Curator:
Rob Wilson |
2011 |
April Sky, Vaudeville Park, New York, NY
In the Trees: “TWIN PEAKS” 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition,
Clifton’s
Brookdale, Los Angeles, CA
Zg Winter Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Spacelift, group show, Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
2010 |
State of the City,
Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
House WARNING, Hopkins Hall
Gallery, University of
Ohio, Columbus OH
Community and Loneliness, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
MMX group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2009 |
There Goes the Neighborhood,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Halpert Biennial 09,
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC
Clusterf*#k,
group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Big Three, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Movers and Shakers,
POV Evolving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The American Scene,
Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE |
2008 |
Infrastructure,
Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aqua Art Fair,
Miami, FL
Painting Pink Pajamas,
curated by Heather Brammier, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria,
IL
Amy Casey/Amy Kligman / Minerva Ortiz,
Project Space, Kansas City, MO
URBANIC: Sightlines and Microcosm,
Moxie Dada, Pittsburgh, PA
Zg Summer Show,
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Living in Your Imagination: SPACES 30th Anniversary,
SPACES gallery, Cleveland, OH
21st Annual McNeese
National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University,
Lake Charles, LA
Alex Lukas, Chris Pew, Amy Casey,
White Walls, San Francisco, CA |
2007 |
Group Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago,
IL
24th Biennial, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, IN |
2006 |
Leave 'Em Wanting More #4, 1300, Cleveland, OH
48 Hours of Art, BK Smith Gallery, Painesville, OH
3 Artists: Amathin, Amy Casey, Liz Maugans, E Gordon Gallery,
Cleveland, OH |
2005 |
NEO+1, invitational, Murray Hill Galleries, Cleveland, OH
Amy Casey and Vesna Jovanovic, Roygbiv Gallery, Columbus, OH
Amy Casey and Lavely Miller, Miller + Weitzel Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
2004 |
8-Hour Drawings, VII, Bowman and Penelec Galleries, Meadville, PA
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2003 |
Selections III, group show, SPACES gallery, Cleveland, OH
80th Annual Spring Show, regional juried show, Erie Art Museum, Erie,
PA
3 Artists, Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Art on View, The Dairy Barn Cultural Center, Athens, OH |
2002 |
Solo Exhibition, Dead Horse
Gallery,
Lakewood, OH
79th Annual Spring Show, regional juried show,
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Art on View, juried show, The Dairy Barn Cultural Center,
Athens, OH
Things That Do Not Move, invitational group show, Dead Horse Gallery,
Lakewood, OH |
2001 |
1st Cleveland Biennial Exhibition, regional juried show,
CSU Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
78th Annual Spring Show, regional juried
show, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Twenty-something,national juried show,
Appleton Art Center, Appleton, WI
Galex 35, national juried show, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg,
IL |
2000 |
PDA, national juried show, Eye
Five Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
Chroma, juried show,
Marilyn Philby Gallery, Evanston,
IL
Drawn Together, juried show, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
1999 |
Art for the New Millennium, group show, Grinning Byrd Gallery,
Cleveland Hts., OH |
1998 |
Fellows Midterm, group show, Yale Summer School Gallery,
Norfolk, CT |
1997 |
Wet Paint, group show, McCullough Center Gallery, Cleveland, OH |
1996 |
Mutations, invitational group show, The Arcade, Providence, RI |
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Bibliography: |
2017 |
Imaginary Builds, creatures populate
"Paper Please" show at Zg Gallery, by Louise Burton, Chicago Tribune,
4/13/17
Makers: Amy Casey, by
Brittany M. Hudak,
CAN Journal: Collective Arts Network | Cleveland, April 2017 |
2015 |
Pick of the Week: Amy Casey "Expansion"
Chicago Tribune, Sept. 10, 2017
Cities in the Sky: Amy Casey's Art Lifts Cleveland to a Higher Plane,
by Carlo Wolff, Canvas Magazine, Oct. 3, 1015 |
2014 |
New American Paintings, No#113, 2014
Midwest Ed. juried by Staci Boris, Curator, Elmhurst Art Museum, IL
Interior Design Magazine, January 2014 issue, p.187 |
2013 |
www.ThisIsColossal.com, "Putting Down Roots: New Paintings of Urban
Growth and Turmoil" 6/25/13
www.ArtAnimalMag.com, "Interview with Amy Casey" by Elizabeth
Coleman 2/12/13
Manufacturing
Uncertainty, Marlia Banning. Peter Lang Publishing, Inc, 2013, cover
Urban Affairs Review,
vol 49, number 1-3, 2013, cover
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2012 |
www.SFArtEnthusiast.com, Amy Casey,
“Building Toward a Solid Ground”, 2/29/12
Pasajes Arquitectura y
Critica, No122, April 2012, cover, feature
San Francisco Chronicle,
Visual Arts, “Amy Casey”
preview by Stephanie
Wright Hession
Nutshell:Art, Poetry and Short Fiction, #3, Cover
Harpers Magazine, Jan
2012, Images accompanying article “Stop Payment!” by Christopher
Ketcham
Making A Case, 306090 Books, Volume 14 “boom town” p48-55 feature
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2011 |
Chicago Tribune, "Apocalyptic Ends, Intriguing Starts" review by Lori
Waxman,
illustrated, July 28, 2011, pg. 62
Little
Thing Magazine, “Amy Casey” April 2011,
illustrated,
China
Maisonneuve Magazine, “Amy Casey” March 2011,
illustrated
Quebec, Canada
WHOA Magazine, “Amy Casey” March 2011,
illustrated
Free Hugs Magazine, “Amy Casey” February 2011,
cover &
illustrated,
Russia
Juxtapoz, “Amy Casey” Jan. 2011,
illustrated
Konstructive: The Netherlands Study Centre for
Technology Trends Magazine, The Hague, 2011 |
2010 |
Elephant Magazine, "Post Real" Summer 2010
Orion Magazine, May/June 2010 issue, pg. 16, illustrated
Aorta Radical Art Magazine, Issue #3, May 2010, illustrated
Vain Magazine, Spring 2010 issue, Cover by Amy Casey
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland, Graywolf Press, Feb. 2010, Cover |
2009 |
New American Paintings,
#83, 2009 juror: Lynne Warren, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, Cover
Time
Out Chicago Magazine, “Amy Casey,”by Lauren Weinberg, October 1-7, 2009, issue 240, pg. 47
Middle Cyclone,
Music CD by Neko Case, images in CD & Album Art
CAN Art Life Design Magazine, September 2009, pgs. 2, 8, 108 – 113,
illustrated
The Plain Dealer, MOCA
Cleveland's
summer show's poetic, provocative works echo the plight of cities
by
Steven Litt,
7-25-09
The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Anniversary Show,” review by
Victoria Donohoe, p.W27, July 10, 2009
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, vol.29.1, The University of
Central Missouri, 2009, cover
Then We Saw the Flames, Daniel Hoyt, The
University of Massachusetts Press, May 2009, cover
Map of the Folded World,
John Gallaher, The University of Akron Press, April 2009, cover |
2008 |
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing Vol 28. 2 2008,The
University of Central Missouri, cover
The Plain Dealer, “Spaces’ 30th Anniversary Show…”
by Steve Litt, May 9, 2008
Cleveland Free Times, “Finding the Future, Spaces hits the big 30,”
by D.M. Utter, p.24, 4/23-29/08, illustrated
New York Times, Illustrated in the Op-Ed Section, April14, 2008, pg.
A27
Living in Your Imagination, Spaces 30th Anniversary
Exhibition Catalog, Illustrated, April-July, 2008
Muse: A Quarterly Journal of The Lit, Amy Casey, Featured Artists,
Illustrated. Spring 2008 |
2007 |
Portfolio,
angle magazine, #30 Jan/Feb 2007
New American Paintings, Issue 71, pgs. 28 - 31, Sept.
2007
Cleveland
Free Times, “You Can’t Go Home Again” by Douglas Max Utter,
Vol. 15, Issue 5, June 6, 2007
Cleveland Free Times, “Suspended Degradation” by
Anastasia Pantsios, Vol.15, Issue 4,
May 30, 2007
South Bend Tribune, “Outward
orientation local museum's exhibition looks to the environment,
culture, technology”
Review by Evan Gillespie, March 25, 2007
Angle Magazine, “Portfolio,”#30 Jan/Feb 2007
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2006 |
Douglas Max
Utter, New Edition, Cleveland Free Times, Sept 13-19, 2006
Dan Tranberg, Painter sees messages in shacks..The Cleveland
Plain Dealer, Feb 17, 2006 |
2005 |
Douglas Max
Utter, The World As We Know It, Artefakt, Oct/Nov 2005
Lyz Bly, Creature Discomforts, Cleveland Free Times, March 2005
Douglas Max Utter, Amy Casey at Dead Horse Gallery, Art Papers,
January 2005 |
2003 |
Amy Bracken Sparks, Selections III @ SPACES, Angle
Magazine, September 2003
Dan Tranberg, Playful show remains provocative, The Plain
Dealer, July 30, 2003
Lyz Bly, Fractured Fairy Tales, The Cleveland Free Times, July
2, 2003
Karen Rene Merkle, Keeping the Faith, Erie Daily Times
Showcase, May 22, 2003 |
2002 |
Amy Sparks,
And A Pig Shall Lead Them, Scene, Nov. 13, 2002
Dan Tranberg, Painter finds Meaning in the Minutiae of Everyday
Life, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, 11/18/'02
Amy Bracken Sparks, The Stuff of Life, The Cleveland Free
Times, January 2002 |
1996 |
Annie Rooney,
From RISD to Rome,
The College Hill Independent, December 1996 |
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Public and Private Collections: |
- ASI, St.
Petersburg, FL
- BMO/Harris Bank Art Collection,
Chicago, IL
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- The Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, OH
- The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
- The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH
- The County of Cuyahoga, Cleveland, OH
- Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH
- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, OH |
- Terry and Eva Herndon Collection, MA
- Huntington Museum of Art, Huntingon, WV
- Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL
- Land O'Frost, Inc., Lansing, IL
- MTA,
Metropolitan Transportation Authority,
New York, NY
- Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
- Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, IL
- The Standard Building, Cleveland, OH
- Weston Inc., Cleveland, OH
- Zygote Press, Cleveland OH |
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