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# NICK CASSWAY

Portraits, People, Patterns

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## Posts

- [Recent News](https://nickcassway.com/recent-news/)
- [Train Up A Child in the Way They Should Go](https://nickcassway.com/train-up-a-child-in-the-way-they-should-go/)
- [Friday Arts Feature](https://nickcassway.com/friday-arts-feature/)
- [Transmission Walkthrough](https://nickcassway.com/transmission-walkthrough/)
- [The Frank Shuman Solar Art Parklet](https://nickcassway.com/parklet/) - Mural Arts Blog | The Frank Shuman Solar Art Parklet
- [billboard](https://nickcassway.com/billboard/)
- [Dramatic Play @ James Oliver Gallery | 12-15-2013 Opening](https://nickcassway.com/dramatic-play-james-oliver-gallery-opening-snapshots/) - Photos from the Opening.
- [Opening @ AIGA Space Gallery 11-1-2013](https://nickcassway.com/opening-aiga-space-gallery-11-1-2013/)
- [Above The Sound Of Ideologies Clashing](https://nickcassway.com/1865/)
- [Face Value](https://nickcassway.com/face-value/)

## Pages

- [home](https://nickcassway.com/) - My artwork is a fusion of commercial design, illustration, and figure drawing, featuring gestural narratives related to shared human experiences and the persistence of memory. I am motivated by images that capture banal moments in time, candid observations, and figures in commonplace motion; I am intrigued by hand gestures, directions of gaze, and other body
- [Patents and Varieties Gallery](https://nickcassway.com/patents-and-varieties-gallery/) - Patents and Varieties Gallery This window-based gallery will showcase artists on an occasional, rotating basis. Currently on view: Nick Cassway – Skywatchers, Latex and Shade Shifter Pigment on Canvas, 2021 My drawing process is based on an analog-to-digital-to-analog process in which 6 original drawings are initially made, then scanned. A seventh and final image is
- [Newest](https://nickcassway.com/newest/) - Newest Work Dance Party | Latex, Metallic Pigment, and Ink on Canvas, 24 x 56, 2024 Friday Night Jamboree | Latex and Metallic Pigment on Canvas, 30 x 36, 2025 The Listeners | Latex and Metallic Pigment on Canvas, 24 x 90, 2025 Procession | Latex and Ink on Canvas, 26 x 36, 2025
- [Above-2024](https://nickcassway.com/above-2024/) - Above The Sounds of Ideologies Clashing – 2024 @PMA Above the Sounds of Ideologies Clashing was reinstalled at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2024 as part of the exhibition “What Times are These”
- [About](https://nickcassway.com/about/) - Exhibitions Reviews Contact Me Bio 2023 Train Up a Child on the Way They Should Go, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA2021 Transmission, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2017 Look Up, Colorspace Labs, Philadelphia, PA2016 Above the Sound of Ideologies Clashing, CFEVA, Philadelphia2013 Dramatic Play, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia2011 The Indulgencies, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia2008 DJ YardSale
- [Artwork](https://nickcassway.com/testpage/) - Artwork Newest Work​ Above the Sounds of Ideologies Clashing, 2024Philadelphia Museum of Art​ Train Up a Child in the Way They Must Go, 2023Mural Arts Program Transmission, 2021James Oliver Gallery LOOK UP, 2017Color Space Labs Beach Memories, 2017Philadelphia Museum of Art Above the Sounds of Ideologies Clashing, 2016Center for Emerging Visual Artists The Pemberton Cycle,
- [Metaphoric Vinyl](https://nickcassway.com/metaphoric-vinyl/) - Metaphoric Vinyl Ten invited artists were asked to produce work using a Roland Camm-1 Servo, a machine commonly used in the sign-making industry. Although the participants shared certain characteristics as contemporary artists and printmakers, the only specific thing they have in common is that they have all utilized this versatile industrial instrument to produce beautiful
- [NEXUSradio](https://nickcassway.com/nexusradio-2/) - NEXUSradio NEXUSradio transformed a Philadelphia gallery space into a low-powered radio station for two months in December 2008/January 2009. NEXUS invited artists, musicians, performers, DJs, activists, poets, scholars, local community groups, and other members of the public to use the radio broadcast during gallery hours. The broadcast was carried live on 1650 AM and reintroduced
- [Playing With A Full Deck](https://nickcassway.com/playing-with-a-full-deck/) - Playing With a Full Deck A collaborative project with participants at NewCourtland Life at Allegheny, Maria Möller, and me. The project involved having seniors create collages that would appear on a pinochle deck.“As many types of rules as there are types of people” was how Playing With a Full Deck participant Theresa Lester described the game of pinochle: an
- [The Frank Shuman Solar Art Parklet](https://nickcassway.com/the-frank-shuman-solar-art-parklet/) - The Frank Shuman Solar Art Parklet The Frank Shuman Solar Art Parklet occupied two parking spaces in front of 6918 and 6920 Torresdale Avenue – effectively the width of the Tacony Library and Arts Building (TaconyLAB.) The Parklet was designed as part of an artist residency in 2016 at the TaconyLAB, sponsored in part by
- [Projects](https://nickcassway.com/projects/) - Projects The Frank Shuman Solar Art Parklet, 2016Mural Arts Program Playing With a Full Deck, 2014Center For Emerging Visual Arts and New Courtland My Face in Your Space, 2009NEXUS/foundation for today’s art NEXUSradio, 2008NEXUS/foundation for today’s art Metaphoric Vinyl, 2007NEXUS/foundation for today’s art Dissentia Curatorial Services
- [Bio](https://nickcassway.com/bio/) - Bio I am a visual artist, educator, and radio producer in Philadelphia. I received a BFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in 1990 and have been involved in the Philadelphia arts and cultural community as an artist, independent curator, juror, and gallery director. I have exhibited my drawings, prints, and site-specific installations
- [Reviews](https://nickcassway.com/reviews/) - REVIEWS 2016, November 8, Congrats Nick Cassway, the ArtBlog.org, by Roberta Fallon2014, October 28, 21st-Century Portraiture, Broad Street Review, by Anne Fabbri2014, October 29, Low-Fi Portraiture, the ArtBlog.org, by Michael Carroll2014, January 19, Visions of Iceland, the moon and Playtime, the Philadelphia Inquirer, by Edith Newhall2014, January 18, Dramatic Play/Nick Cassway at James Oliver Gallery, pocketintellectual.blogspot.com, by
- [Exhibitions](https://nickcassway.com/procrastination/) - Exhibtions Solo Exhibitions2023 Train Up a Child on the Way They Should Go, Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia, PA2021 Transmission, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA2017 Look Up, Colorspace Labs, Philadelphia, PA2016 Above the Sound of Ideologies Clashing, CFEVA, Philadelphia2013 Dramatic Play, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia2011 The Indulgencies, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia2008 DJ YardSale presents…the Third Idea,
- [Beach Memories](https://nickcassway.com/beach-memories/) - Beach Memories A project for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 2017 I’ve had the same dream of being on the beach since I was a kid. In this dream, I am alone, there are large dunes and big crashing waves, it’s stormy. I’m not sure what these dreams signify but if I am to
- [Other Series](https://nickcassway.com/other-series/) - Heads Every U.S. Supreme Court decision starting at Bush vs. Gore until the end of the 2001-2002 term – Rubber Stampings on paper Anthrax Victims Series – Clear Acrylic on Glass, Shadows Enron Series – Screenprinted Vaseline on Paper Line in the Sand, Spray paint on Sand
- [Who Died](https://nickcassway.com/who-died/) - Who Died Who Died utilized the effects of retinal afterimages as a motif to examine our relationships with the deaths of celebrities and news figures. (Retinal afterimages are the persistent images that are temporarily stamped onto the retina after being exposed to bright lights or highly contrasting stimuli.) This installation utilized high contrast white-on-black drawn
- [Portraits of Inmates in the Death Row Population Sentenced as Juveniles](https://nickcassway.com/portraits-of-inmates-in-the-death-row-population-sentenced-as-juveniles/) - Portraits of Inmates in the Death Row Population Sentenced as Juveniles This installation was commissioned by Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia and was on display from 2002 through 2005. The piece centers on the theme of death row inmates who were sentenced as juveniles, an issue the Supreme Court in October of 2002 refused to review. (In
- [In the Woods](https://nickcassway.com/in-the-woods/) - In the Woods The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education – Second SiteSeptember 2010 – December 2010 Thus wandered these two prettye babes,Till death did end their grief;In one another’s armes they dyed,As babes wanting relief. No burial these prettye babesOf any man receives,Till Robin-redbreast painfullyDid cover them with leaves. Originally installed at the Brolo Hill Farm
- [The Indulgencies - Computer Cut Vinyl Drawings](https://nickcassway.com/the-indulgencies-computer-cut-vinyl-drawings/) - The Indulgencies This body of work used computer-cut vinyl on plexiglass to portray graphically bold portraits of friends at play. The images in The Indulgencies were derived from unposed and candid snapshots that depicted scenes of revelry, camaraderie, and goofing off for the camera. Through these images, we are given an opportunity to unabashedly stare
- [CHOIR](https://nickcassway.com/choir/) - Choir A series of portraits of hysterically crying children.
- [Dramatic Play](https://nickcassway.com/dramatic-play/) - Dramatic Play In the world of young children, dramatic play is a meaningful way for them to participate in the world by acting out roles they have observed, expressing their interests, and practicing being grown-ups. This series of spray-painted and gold-leafed drawings captures these intimate moments in time, offering an opportunity to consider the formative
- [The Pemberton Cycle](https://nickcassway.com/the-pemberton-cycle/) - The Pemberton Cycle The Pemberton Cycle is a quasi-accurate historical narrative based on the life of General John Pemberton, a Confederate Civil War General originally hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Using the artist’s friends as amateur re-enactors, the six-part narrative cycle traces Pemberton’s story as a young cadet, his early friendship with Ulysses S. Grant, his
- [Above the Sound of Ideologies Clashing](https://nickcassway.com/above-the-sound-of-ideologies-clashing/) - Above the Sounds of Ideologies Clashing The wallpaper in my childhood bathroom has been one of my greatest artistic influences. Besides Mad Magazine and Captain America comic books, it was this incredible wallpaper – a beautifully rendered circus scene, complete with lion tamers, acrobats and clowns, complemented by a fantastic early ‘70s color palette of
- [LOOK UP](https://nickcassway.com/look-up/) - LOOK UP In 1680, when Halley’s comet was observed, it signaled to some of the more mystical members of religious societies that the world would end within the next two decades. Obviously, that didn’t happen, and many ends of the world have come and gone in the past 337 years. As the eclipse of 2017
- [Train Up a Child in the Way They Should Go](https://nickcassway.com/train-up-a-child-in-the-way-they-should-go/) - Train Up a Child in the Way They Should Go A mural made for Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program, made in conjunction with the Rock Ministries. 2023, Digitally printed.
- [TRANSMISSION](https://nickcassway.com/transmission/) - Transmission The work in TRANSMISSION represents four years of exploration with experimental applications of paint and stencils, metaphoric color palettes, surface design, and the representation of a range of human emotions and experiences. The Crowds: A series of paintings depicting large groups of people walking, converging, and intermingling. A partial response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s isolation and a
- [Other Things](https://nickcassway.com/other-things/) - Other Things Broadcasting live every Monday night at 8 PM on WPPM-LP 106.5 FM in Philadelphia. A selection of patterns developed from vintage illustrations, as well as my own drawings and experiments are available for purchase at Spoonflower. I oversee the publication of the D&M magazine through my role as associate teaching professor in the
- [My Face in Your Space](https://nickcassway.com/my-face-in-your-space/) - With this exhibition, several artists were selected to draw portraits of their friends and acquaintances under the agreement that their portraitees would reciprocate and do the same. Once their friends had been entered into the network, they would be able to do portraits of whomever they liked under the same reciprocal agreement. The installation is
- [Publications](https://nickcassway.com/publications/) - Sketches from In the Woods drawings that were developed into the installation In the Woods Purchase WHAT’S COOKIN’ stories and recipes made in conjunction with senior citizens at NewCourtland Life, Germantown, Philadelphia Purchase Triangle Man Goes Home Purchase Dramatic Play Purchase
- [D&M Magazine](https://nickcassway.com/dm-magazine/) - As a professor in Drexel University's Design and Merchandising program I oversee publication of the annual D&M magazine. The magazine has won numerous awards over the past 5 years. http://issuu.com/nick.cassway/docs/2016_d_m_magazine?e=1915153/35491049 http://issuu.com/nick.cassway/docs/2015_d_m_magazine02?e=1915153/13556959 http://issuu.com/nick.cassway/docs/2014_dm_magazine_final_layout_pg_26?e=1915153/8184541 http://issuu.com/nick.cassway/docs/2013_d_m_magazine_final_layout?e=1915153/2851709
- [Design and Illustration](https://nickcassway.com/design-and-illustration/) - Poster and Postcard for Swamp Is On performed by Pig Iron and Dr. Dog Postcards designed for Shakespeare in Clark Park " order_by="sortorder" order_direction="ASC" returns="included" maximum_entity_count="500" display_type="photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails"] Cover of Philadelphia' City Paper, June 2009
- [This Is Not A Test magazine](https://nickcassway.com/this-is-not-a-test-magazine/) - The Texture Issue From the archives: Experiments using Illustrator Appearances and Brushes, Photographs of Nothing, Corrupt Files, Non-Periodic Tiling and Photographs of Textures. Purchase or Download The Faces Issue From the archives: selections from the doodle database, ghostfaces, retinal afterimage portraits, Imposters, doodles redrawn in Adobe Illustrator and a guest appearance
- [dj YardSale presents...the Third Idea](https://nickcassway.com/dj-yardsale-presents-the-third-idea/) - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLutSZH7XS1zk5Pf9o_jjdjoIkFT0JXIi3 The Third Idea is a collection of mash-up videos using material from the website archive.org. Each video is composed of one song and one video - all from the public domain – with the video recut to match the audio. The Third Idea is the implied narrative created by the combination of imagery and
- [Video](https://nickcassway.com/video/) - [youtube] https://youtu.be/E-owKo5sOlY[/youtube] This video was created with dancers Rebecca Patek and Allison Lorenzen. It was an experimental foray into D.I.Y green screen. The animations were created by Rebecca and Allison. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKR4nt1zwN0&feature=g-upl[/youtube] A video made for my friend James Rosenthal's band Clarksville. We set out to make a piece that looked as if Hans Hoffmann and

## My Templates

- [Default Kit](https://nickcassway.com/?elementor_library=default-kit)
- [Project Page](https://nickcassway.com/?elementor_library=project-page) - LOOK UP, Color Space, 2017 In 1680, when Halley’s comet was observed, it signaled to some of the more mystical members of religious societies that the world would end within the next two decades. Obviously, that didn’t happen, and many ends of the world have come and gone in the past 337 years. As the
- [Basic Grid](https://nickcassway.com/?elementor_library=basic-grid) - Artwork

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