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Chicago
Issue 164 November 6, 2007
Amy Casey's paintings document the artist's love of both the urban
landscape and small, twisted creatures. Inspired by natural and
unnatural disasters, personal fiascoes, and the never-ending stream of
bad news, a relentless mob of curious, plant-like creatures and other
disasters have swarmed over the painted landscapes, threatening the
creatures and life within. Like us, the creatures stumble through life
as best they can, given their circumstances. Acting out of
vulnerability, they try to create security but sometimes, like us, end
up kicking their own asses. Casey is fascinated by the resilience of
life — every disaster is followed by a rebirth, in which we hike up
our boots, duct tape our lives back together, and try to cobble
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In Amy Casey's world, stilt-legged houses sway like kelp over vast,
colorful sea-anemones or dangle perilously in the breeze from
telephone wire tethers. The houses seem lost and precariously balanced
like great giants too strange to avoid extinction, and the writhing
sea creatures below reach up in desperate welcome. Her undulating
highways lead nowhere and cars are abandoned. It seems like a world
where the people have gone and the structures have been forced to live
on their own, crafting themselves new niches in hopes of survival.
It's also interesting to think that houses, taken slightly out of
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