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Jacob Kassay

Jacob Kassay (Born 1984) is active/lives in New York.  Jacob Kassay is known for Electroplated silver monchromatic canvases.

Following is an online published review by Joseph Wolin from New York Time Out, March 19, 2009: http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/art/32287/jacob-kassay



In his promising debut, Jacob Kassay paints canvases in broad horizontal strokes of color before electroplating them in silver.  The result: Specular works that are hung on the walls or, in one instance, stacked on a low pedestal like oversized ingots to create a strange hybrid of monochrome painting and metallic sculpture.

The plating process scorches unpainted canvas, so the edges of these works are often blackened. In a few cases, burn marks extend onto the shiny faces of the panels, fading into golden, tarnish-like smears. Here and there, hints of the original color show through, and some of the pieces have strands of unraveled canvas flopping across the front, their sinuous curves fossilized under paint and silver. Yet the artist downplays surface incident, and the work   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1855 characters.]  Artist bio

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