""I was a dorky creative child with a compulsion to make things; and I grew up into a dorky creative adult who paints," adding: "Painting gave me a fully satisfying outlet for my obsessive energy and, though it took me a while to figure it out, when I did, it gave me a kind of freedom.""
""These experiences rekindled my relationship with nature, and it became much more prominent in my work. Nature began to represent a kind of escape for me, especially from the political noise that gets increasingly louder every year.""
""I'm in love with the varieties, forms, and textures of stumps. I enjoy their placement between death-the defi""
Casey grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, near a creek and woods that offered places to hide, read, and spend time with friends. Outdoor experiences supported her creative development, and she became a painter driven by an obsessive need to make things. After earning a BFA in Cleveland in 1994, she absorbed urban qualities and painted precarious cityscapes with stacked buildings, houses on stilts, and structures connected by nets, rope, and wire against pale skies. Later residencies in natural settings, including Arteles in Finland, rekindled her relationship with nature and made it more prominent in her work. She began using small six-by-six-inch panels to depict lone buildings on stumps surrounded by mushroom and other flora, blending themes of escape and coexisting life and death.
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