35 Claver Place

Blue Spring Tree: Encaustic / collage on wood panel- 40" x 26" 2006

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I paint contemporary landscape as a multi-layered space shaped by consciousness, deja vu, location and cultural influence. Each painting combines illusion, cartoon, text, gesture, pours and "Pat the Bunny"-like textures that contain disparate realities in single works.

Recently I've been documenting and drawing the huge growth spurt in Brooklyn housing, and the old structures that are 'getting in the way' of the developers' plans for the future.

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HoMay in the Shadow of Steel: mixed media and transfer on paper

Old Flatbush Carwash: gouache and transfer on paper

Isabelle escapes the busy robot city insearch of something else,
...almost getting hit by the limo, isabelle realizes this could be her way out of robot city.

/size various dimensions /medium trash bags, BBQ sticks, packing tape, c-print, digital video, drawing /date of work 2005

Trash seems to have a life of its own always growing, gathering seemingly from nowhere, always in the most unexpected places, unless you live in New York I guess then you expect trash to be everywhere, one of those unavoidable companions to your life in a big dirty city.

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Cassandra Quinn
Artist
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