BIOGRAPHY
Casidy Rae, originally from Dallas, Texas, work centers around female empowerment through healing and female figures. She discovered her passion of art after healing through eleven concussions. Using art as a way of healing both trauma of the mind and body, creating taught her how to fall in love with living
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Bachelor of Art degree Southern Methodist University: Meadows School of the Arts 2024
2017-2019 VASE & TAPPS state juried exhibitions, Austin, Tx
— 6 collective gold medals, 3 collective bronze medals
2019 Blue Print gallery exhibition, Dallas, TX
2019 RAW Artists group exhibition, San Antonio, Tx
2020 Main St gallery, Lewisville, Tx
2021-2023 Pollock Gallery various group exhibitions, Dallas, Tx
2024 RAW Artists group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA
2024 RAW Artists group exhibition, San Diego, CA
2024 RAW Artists group exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2024 LAS Laguna Art Gallery “Absolutely Abstract” group exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA
STATEMENT
Beginning my career I learned many 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.
