John Casey X Cleophus Quealy

T-shirt Release and Art Exhibit 2/13/17, 6-9pm

Show runs 2/13 – 3/12

Facebook invite here.

Map to Cleophus Quealy.

Hey art pals! I have designed a new California Quail t-shirt for tasty craft brewers Cleophus Quealy in San Leandro, CA for SF Beer Week. In conjunction with this tee release, I will also be showing 35+ smallish hand-painted cutouts. The opening is Monday eve, 2/13/17, 6pm-9pm. Dogs, children, and well-behaved adults are all welcome. I hope to see you there!

From the CQ press release: Oakland artist John Casey is taking over the Cleophus Quealy tasting room on Monday, February 13th from 6-9pm with his cadre of complex characters, infused with dark magical surrealism. Enjoy some small bites from our food truck and a pint of our special SF Beer Week release of barrel-aged Cherry Red while taking in Casey’s custom multi-media work, specifically catered to our space. This will be your chance to get your hands on an exclusive SFBW collaborative tee, designed by Casey just for us!

“Familiar” show at Talon in PDX

The founders of Antler are thrilled to announce the opening of their second space Talon Gallery! With Talon the curators aim to lean the focus toward the darker end of the Antler Gallery spectrum. We’ll be maintaining elements of the nature-inspired themes and high levels of technical skill but also expanding toward some more folkloric narratives and figurative works.

We will open on Saturday, January 14th with our inaugural group show, ‘Familiar”. The title bears reference to the fact that while this new gallery may carry some resemblance to Antler it is an entirely different entity with a life and personality of its own. We love how this can be compared to the daemon spirits that are companions to witches and other individuals across numerous mythologies. Please keep your eyes peeled for some special surprises and giveaways to celebrate the opening.

me/you exhibit at c2c/wc

c2c project space is pleased to announce the upcoming c2c/wc annex exhibition, “me/you”. This show will feature figurative work and portraiture by artists who subvert these traditional approaches through a redirection of focus that uses their depictions of the “other” to provide glimpses of whom they, the artists, are themselves. This is achieved be a variety of means. Style, perspective, the color or tone of the work, and the choice of a subject are all employed as devices to create subtle, self-referential elements within the group of work that function to expose self-revelations, which grow in clarity as viewers discover them.

As this show will run concurrently with project 12 in the main gallery, a unique three-person installation that will challenge notions and perceptions of the space, we thought it also appropriate to push the spatial parameters of the c2c/wc exhibition space by welcoming a whopping 13 artists into this show. The techniques presented will range from realistic rendering to abstraction and the collection of work is displayed in a way that is intended to transcend the presence of the individual and exude a crowd-like energy. The 13 featured artists are, in no specific order, Aaron Poser, Elise Siegel, Adam Novak, Sarah Thibault, Jenny Ottinger, Grace Rosario Perkins, Amanda Church, Tebby George, David Lasley, Bill Samios, Yuki Maruyama, Matt Smith Chavez-Delgado, and John Casey.

The show opens Saturday, January 7, 2017 with a reception from 6-9pm and continues through February 5 with gallery hours on Sundays, Noon-5pm.

Krampusmas at 63 Bluxome

I have a piece in this fun show at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery in San Francisco, CA. You can see the available work here. I have the piece below there.

I even donned my old Krampus costume and hung with all the other Krampii, big and small.

510 Allstars at Nielsen Arts

I have this 10″x10″ painting in this cool group show at Nielsen Arts in Berkeley, CA along with many very talented Bay Area folks.

How to Get a Head

Reception: Saturday, October 8, 1 – 4 PM

October 7-28, 2016

4 solos at NIAD Art Center: Karen May, Saul Alegria, Erik Friedman, John Casey

Oakland artist John Casey is a natural character creator. Often his paintings and drawings include invented people with detailed clothing, sometimes backgrounds, and occasionally several folks interacting. In “How to Get a Head,” Casey narrows his focus to just head portraits: cut out head shapes from plywood, painted. These wall pieces are not pre-planned. Instead, he draws a variety of head shapes; some simple, some more elaborate, without a finished image in mind and then Casey loosely paints in the features in and let the portraits emerge through play.

NIAD Art Center
551 23rd Street
Richmond, CA 94804
gallery@niadart.org

2/4/16 – 2/29/16: Subtle Gaze

Gravity Gallery, in Aspen, CO, presents “Subtle Gaze” a group exhibit curated by Max Kauffman. Artists include John Casey, Hari & Deepti, Brett Flanigan, Dan Hampe, Travis Hetman, Lynnea Holland-Weiss, Hydeon, Kate Klingbeil, Hollis & Lana, Gabriel Liston, Arabella Proffer, Lauren YS, and Mario Zoots.

1/16/16 – 2/27/16: Hands & Pants 6

My ongoing collaborative project “Hands & Pants” will be displayed in January at Faultline Artspace in Oakland, CA. Over 110 artists participating, over 130 works on display.

12/12/15 – 12/24/15: Capacity

Good Mother Gallery, in Oakland, CA, presents “Capacity” a group exhibit featuring sculptures of various forms. Artists include: Scott Hove, Margot Rada, Lana Licata, Kyle Lypka, Oliver Holden, Andrew Luck, Charlotte Hodgson, Charlie Pollard, Kevin Welch, Lucien Shapiro, Sam Lamott, Julia Guzman, Alessandro Boezio, Alexandra Toledo, and John Casey.

11/27/15 – 12/24/15: Okay, Not Okay

Galerie Polaris, in Paris France, presents “Okay, Not Okay” a solo exhibit featuring my recent drawings and sculpture. Opening Reception days are part of the “3 Days in Paris” event where a number of galleries in Le Marais district of Paris are open daily all weekend.

12/5/15 – 12/23/15: Don’t Wake Daddy X

Feinkunst Kruger, in Hamburg, Germany presents “Don’t Wake Daddy X” the tenth anniversary of this international group exhibition. This year’s DWD artists: Van Arno, Anthony Ausgang, Dan Barry, Jana Brike, Chris Buzelli, John Casey, Victor Castillo, Paul Chatem, Brendan Danielsson, Danielle de Picciotto, Alex Diamond, Mark Elliott, Charles Glaubitz, Thorsten Hasenkamm, Gregory Hergert, Ryan Heshka, Femke Hiemstra, Charlie Immer, Gregory Jacobsen, Boje Arndt Kiesiel, Susanne König, Craig LaRotonda, Elmar Lause, Sean Lewis, Jon MacNair, Moki, Sergio Mora, Heiko Müller, Thorsten Passfeld, Anthony Pontius, Bene Rohlmann, Wolfgang Sangmeister, Marcus Schäfer, Allison Sommers, Fred Stonehouse and Marco Wagner. View images of the show here.