by Alicia | Jul 19, 2016 | Hyperallergic, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Scott Marvel Cassidy’s art makes viewers do a double take. Stylistically, his paintings are located somewhere between realism and magical realism, and this sense is only heightened when his work takes on three dimensions. In his new project “Levitate the...
by Alicia | Feb 10, 2016 | Online, Press
PAINTING ON PUZZLES, greeting cards, and even La-Z-Boys, Thomas Kinkade may be the most ubiquitous artist in America—and possibly the most commercially successful—yet he was largely ignored by the art world during his lifetime. Kinkade died in 2012, but even in death...
by Alicia | Jan 21, 2016 | Curatorial, PAIN TERO FLIGHT
Hey everyone! I’m so pleased to share more about my latest project with the delightful Theo Downes-Le Guin. If you’re in Portland anytime soon, come to our show! PAIN TERO FLIGHT January 20 – February 27, 2016 First Thursday reception February 4, 6:00 to...
by Alicia | Jun 26, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
In Scott Marvel Cassidy’s paintings, drawings and sculpture, it’s often times impossible to separate reality from a dreamlike state, or to differentiate the manufacture of a domesticity with the actual domestic life. Focused on intersecting themes of...