Christian Casas
Christian Casas is a first-generation Cuban-American artist, curator, and educator from Hialeah, Florida. He received a BA in English and linguistics from the University of Florida in 2017 and an MFA from The Ohio State University in 2022.
Casas’ work in ceramics, pyrography, video, printmaking, and painting to explore inter-generational memory, selfhood, and erasure within a diasporic experience. Through engaged acknowledgment, Casas calls upon viewers to (re)engage with their own experiences in a global context of power and "otherness."
Memory, dreams, reflections
Shou Sugi Ban plywood, dye, stoneware tile, glaze, hemp oil
9x18x.75 in
Petals held close
Earthenware clay, glaze
7x7x2 in
Grip of Growth
Earthenware clay, glaze
8x8x2.5 in
Looking at the world through a hole
Shou Sugi Ban plywood, dye, stoneware tile, glaze, hemp oil
8.5x15.5x1 in
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself
Shou Sugi Ban poplar, mother of pearl, stoneware tile, glaze, hemp oil
22x8x1 in
Short term crisis
Shou Sugi Ban plywood, dye, stoneware tile, glaze, hemp oil
18x12x1 in