LEE CASEY
GALLERY
Rockville, Maryland, painter Lee Casey says that of all the media she’s worked with in her nearly 30 years as an artist, acrylic suits her personality best. “I like to work fast, and I can paint over or correct mistakes in acrylics. It has, however, taken about 15 years to get acrylics to give me the same satisfaction in color and manageability as oils.”
Casey says her past painting style has leaned toward realism; some of her newer works represent a shift to “a more nonobjective world” from a representational style to presently exploring abstract. She paints on heavy illustration board using acrylics, charcoal and pastels worked into wet acrylic. She drags paint across the surface with a wide color scraper and employs a hodgepodge of rags, sponges and painting knives to scratch textures into the surface.
“As I paint, I turn my canvas or paper in all directions- painting in the round, so to speak,” Casey says. “My goal is to keep the work bold, spontaneous and gestural.”
Casey comes from a strong artistic background that emphasizes drawing as the foundation for painting. The use of line and mark-making is always present in her work.
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