“I remember as a very young child often having deeply existential moments of dissociation from myself. Observing my surroundings but not being of them, wondering if this reality with which I’d been presented was only a dream.”
“The thing I have not achieved,” explains Casey, “is something that cannot be achieved: Not ever being complacent.”
Q: What is the longest time you went without creating art?
A: Never.
As a young child, I could not be stopped from drawing with anything, on anything, all of the time. Nothing has changed that.
Most of my images are sparked by vistas from my studio or home and also from iconic objects that are in my studio.
The most important quality in an artist is honesty and the willingness to go beyond past successes.
Artists from James Little’s class kept painting after New York shut down.
Notable work from students in the classes of Janet A. Cook, Christopher Gallego, Leonid Gervits, Oscar Garcia, and Marshall Jones.
Notable work from students in the classes of Costa Vavagiakis, Robin Smith, Jeff Buckland, Jerry Weiss, Paul Oestreicher & Christopher Raccioppi, and Gregg Kreutz.
Notable work from students in the classes of Dan Gheno, John Varriano, Cliff Dufton, and Hak Sul Lee.