Stanley Casselman (b.1963) is a New York-based artist who began painting on silkscreen in college in the early ‘80’s. The screen, a grid of essentially perfectly spaced fishing line, has opened a universe of possibility and many consider Casselman the pioneer within the medium. He deploys numerous inventive ways to manipulate pigment and often paints from the back side of the screen. His unique approach enables the capture or the freezing of energetic events on the verso. The imagery that is revealed is what’s typically the underside of painting, the side that would be in contact with the substrate or the side which is normally hidden and never seen. Casselman received his Bachelor of Arts from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, institutional presentations including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. His works are in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; and Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul.

Public Collections

Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Museum of Modern Art of Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna
U.S. Department of State, Islamabad