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Cassie Gnehm is an artist and educator based in San Antonio, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art and Design and her Master of Fine Arts from West Virginia University. She also earned a Master in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Denver. Gnehm was awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as well as the Vermont Studio Center and is a current resident artist at Clamp Light Studios and Gallery. Her work has been most recently exhibited at Luminaria Contemporary Arts Festival, San Antonio, TX; Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX; ICOSA, Austin, TX; San Antonio Art League and Museum, San Antonio, TX; Bowery Gallery, New York, NY; Silver Mine Galleries, New Canaan, CT; Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX and many other venues. Gnehm is a high school drawing and painting instructor who has taught internationally as well as at the college level.
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Artist Type: Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Painter
Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Instruction for Seniors, Instruction for Special Needs, Multi-Day Artist Residency, Performer for Schools/Classrooms, Private Lessons, Workshop Presenter; Visual Art: Collage, Contemporary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Figurative, Portraiture, Realism
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
Gnehm’s colorful/fluorescent collage-inspired paintings draw inspiration from the synthesis of art history, contemporary media, and the female figure. Each painting starts as a digital collage of carefully borrowed fragments from historical paintings of women and popular culture. She then paints those constructions in oil over bright abstract acrylic grounds. Using thin layers of paint, the figures emerge from the chaos of the swirling paint-poured background. As a woman painting women, she takes from paintings traditionally painted by men and deconstructs them into new images. These paintings interweave female forms (past and present) overlaying imagery and texture using traditional and experimental painting techniques.
