I grew up in Littleton, Colorado. It’s a city that has one foot firmly planted in city life and the other in nature. When I left it was the twenty-fifth largest city in America.
I then moved to the fourth largest city in America-Houston, Texas. The vastness and extreme speed of the city quickly overwhelmed me. Sometime I would feel like the city was closing in on me-it was too much for my brain to process. And it all looked the same.
This feeling is perfectly captured in the paintings of Amy Casey. Her chaotic paintings are filled with buildings and landscapes in obvious turmoil. Up is down, buildings are stacked on top of each other. They, to me, reflect the totally overwhelming nature of a large city and capture the way I felt when I first moved here. Amy’s art is beautiful and amazing, and I hope to see more of it in the future.
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