Jacob Kassay
from show at Eleven Rivington in NYC.
(he is a friend of the family and UB grad)
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"By contrast, the New York-born twenty-five-year-old artist Jacob Kassay's three stunning silver canvases, all 2009, are rich with captivating texture and complex variations in colour within the monochrome silver. And the astonishing visual pleasure of those works is greatly enhanced by the information that the arresting appearance of Kassay's paintings is the product not of paint, but of silver deposits on dark canvases. Having begun his artistic career as a photographer, Kassay now applies the same techniques used to develop film for his canvases. He dips canvases of different sizes in the chemicals to "develop" them, creating beautiful silver surfaces that resemble antique mirrors. The results also cleverly engage with the assumption taught in many art history classes that Abstraction stems from Impressionism, which evolved as a reaction to thepressure placed on representational painting by the advent of photography. In that respect, Kassay's canvases are a snappy bridge between painting and photography."
- Ali Baba-like treasure trove at PSM by Ana Finel Honigman
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