Statement & Resume

Paintings

New Book Information

Reviews

Amy Casey, "Boomtown" at Zg Gallery

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.

1994-1999

Recipient of the Emerging Artist of the Year, Cleveland Arts Price, Cleveland, OH
Recipient of the Creative Workforce Fellowship, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Cleveland, OH

Ohio Art Council Individual Excellence Award Grant, Columbus, OH
South Bend Regional Museum of Art, Biennial 24, 1^st Place, Juror’s Award, South Bend, IN

The Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship Award, Johnson, VT
Erie Art Museum, 80^th Annual Spring Show, Juror’s Award, juror: James Yood, Erie, PA

Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship- Yale Summer School of Art and Music
John Paul Wrobbel Painting Prize
Myrtle Waintrup Givelber Prize

April Sky, Vaudeville Park, New York, NY
In the Trees: “TWIN PEAKS” 20^th 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

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

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

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

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

1^st Cleveland Biennial Exhibition, regional juried show, CSU Art Gallery, Cleveland, OH
78^th 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

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

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

2010

The Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends Magazine, The Hague,  December 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,” review 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’ 30^th 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 30^th 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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