CASIDY RAE
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Casidy Rae is an emerging artist from Dallas,Texas, her work centers around female empowerment through healing and female figures. Through her rigorous study of art at the Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts her love of the Dallas art scene has sky rocketed. She discovered her passion of art after suffering through nine concussions. Using her work as a way of healing, she now uses her work to empower healing in others. Formerly a practicing realism artist, Casidy now seeks to inspire her creativity with drawing ideas from other avenues of art.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My work centers around female empowerment through healing and female figures. I discovered my passion of art after suffering through nine concussions. Using art as a way of healing both trauma of the mind and body, creating taught me how to fall in love with living again. I now use my work to address societal issues and challenges social norms. Beginning my career I learned may skills through the realm of realism, however, my more recent work leans toward abstraction, due to a new found inspiration of creating by drawing ideas from other avenues of art such as music and performance. My recent series "VERTIGO" is the compilation of skills learned from all phases of life, studying the rhythmic flow of music and conveying in paint what the sounds draw in my mind. In my most recently completed series of works, “Vertigo” the pieces are named after influential songs that have more or less “saved my life”. Through the power of music and art, we create the reality in which the non creators live. I have taken the lyrics and rhythmic patterns of each song and translated them into a visual field. These works are heavily representative of the world that resides in the audible and the influence music has on the mind. The hybrid of melody and lyric directly translates to my use of color, brush strokes, and figures, as well as the general flow of the painting.
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