Jonathan Casella: Wet Sisters

“My work is a personal investigation and rearticulation of visual language. I am interested in the relationships we have with color, pattern, form, and how that affects and is affected by our perception. I see my approach to painting as an argot of non-representation, one that uses the familiar nature, and starkness of color, shape, and pattern to express the inarticulable, both inherent and unknown.  

In that, there are properties to my work that derive from the starkness and literality of the colors and patterns I use. Specifically, there is a playfulness in the work, and a pop sensibility that is utilized to efficiently maximize the visual field. Each form collectively makes the whole wherein they are both objective elements, but non-representational in their utility.