Brown Foundation Gallery
August 26 - October 8, 2017
Opening Reception Saturday, August 26, 2017
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Christopher Cascio
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Christopher Cascio explores themes of obsession, compulsion and ritual through painting and mixed media works. His exhibition, XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX, includes a new series of paintings that reference traditional quilt patterns and his past work incorporating concert wristbands. The title of the exhibition and Cascio’s artist statement are intended to be both immediate and cryptic, redacted in an effort to reflect its futility:
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Christopher Cascio is a painter based in Houston. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, 1999) and the University of Houston (MFA, 2013). Cascio has exhibited his work extensively, including exhibitions at Devin Borden Gallery, Cardoza Fine Arts, Rice University, Blaffer Museum, DiverseWorks, and Lawndale Art Center in Houston, New Image Art and Maitland Foley in Los Angeles, Makebish in New York, and others exhibition in Dallas, San Antonio, and San Francisco. In 2014, he was included in the Contemporary Art Museum’s 65th anniversary show Outside the Lines. He was recently featured in Sneeze Magazine and reviewed in Art in America. Cascio teaches at Sam Houston State University and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.