Amy Casey is a painter based in Cleveland, Ohio. Casey has a fascination with the urban landscape and its evolution and transformation. Her paintings document the artist’s love of both the urban landscape and small, twisted creatures. Inspired by natural and unnatural disasters, personal fiascoes, and the never-ending stream of bad news, a relentless mob of curious, plant-like creatures and other disasters have swarmed over the painted landscapes, threatening the creatures and life within.
Casey’s structures stumble through the canvass, presenting doomsday scenarios that are masterful hallucinations of a true visionary. Acting out of vulnerability, they try to create security but sometimes, end up kicking their own asses in the reassembly process. Casey is fascinated by the resilience of life — every disaster is followed by a rebirth, in which we hike up our boots, duct tape our lives back together, and try to cobble together a “plan b” out of what remains. She paints most of her images on paper using acrylics.
