About:
My name is Casey Jones, an artist born December 20th 1993. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY and I studied at California College of the Arts in Oakland,CA from 2011-14. Ever since I was a little girl I had a love for art and art making. As I got older, I started experimenting with different mediums like sculpture, tattooing, and murals- but always found myself coming back to my love for painting. While living in the Bay Area, (notorious for drugs, particularity LSD and psilocybin mushrooms) I tried my first tab. It was a mystical experience that transformed my creativity and outlook on life to existentialism, and radical transcendentalism. I continued to take these sacramental journeys on LSD and psilocybin for about 3 more years until I felt I had taken enough to enhance my creativity and my mind. Intending to create spiritual art, I try to capture my experiences and visions I had while on my psychedelic journeys. I felt that I had witnessed one of the most important things in my life: a revelation of the world in which the fabric of our reality has been draped over most of our eyes. When I paint, I put my subconscious mind, sacramental journey experiences, and my soul into each painting. I want the viewers to feel the "trip" and get weird with me.
Artist Statement:
I explore shape, form and color through the merging of abstract and figurative objects which I distort, disfigure, and reconfigure using my own style of painting. The finished pieces depict a universe of warped, otherworldly expanses that cannot be concretely understood or deciphered. I welcome various interpretations to my work, not desiring to bound myself or my viewer to concrete, realistic forms or definite concepts. More than anything, I explore my own imagination through my paintings, drawing from my mind to create odd forms and nonsensical spaces. The structures I create are influenced by my psychedelic trips on LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) and psilocybin mushrooms, as well as sacred geometry and scientific imagery such as atoms, DNA, and space. I also draw inspiration from psychedelic art and surrealism, merging all of these sources to create a style I call "Acid Art." I have a love for creating paintings that are strange, with subject matter that is intangible, indescribable, and abstract.
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