Hello Again Cleveland

Sep 17, 2009

Topic: Events | Tags: cleveland, illustration, photography

KP Photo Crew

Next week we’re headed to Cleveland for the annual Kalman & Pabst Photography Exhibit to benefit Flashes of Hope, an organization that provides intimate and painfully beautiful portraits of children with cancer. The yearly show features the artists that work at KP, including our good friends Jeff Downie and Clarissa Westmeyer, and opens on Friday, September 25th, 5-10 PM.

While we’re in town, we’ll be swinging by the Cleveland Clinic to view work by Amy Casey, a young illustrator originally from Erie, PA whose dangling cityscapes both intrigue and forewarn. The Cleveland Clinic isn’t a cool new gallery, it’s a hospital and since the artist doesn’t have work in any galleries in town next weekend that we know if, it’ll have to do.

Amy’s got a fairly robust site that includes work back to 2004 – a nice way for curators, potential buyers and journalists to see her progression as an artist.

Storms Blowing In, 2004

The site also offers up process photos. As we’ve often pointed out, allowing viewers a peak at your process provides them with a foundation of the time and effort that goes into creating a masterpiece. For Amy, it’s nothing more that a comfortable space, tacking up paper on the wall or panel to an easel, and starting with a simple pencil illustration. The finished product is acrylic on one of the two surfaces, and more often than not, will lead to the start of another painting immediately after.

Dead End, 2006

Amy Casey has stated that her “work is a reflection of the nervous state of affairs in the world today… and the structures in her works display this resilience as they are repaired, reassembled and salvaged to cope with disaster.”

Overgrowth, 2007

Begin Again, 2009

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