A MONUMENTAL MOVE

Ten months ago, on Nov. 30, 2021, we relocated home and studio. All the details here…

SPRING / SUMMER 2022 UPDATES

Degrees of Granularity is the official selection for Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe this year. Form&Concept, a contemporary gallery, venue and partner of the festival has selected this piece to exhibit during the event. This particular piece is a collaborative sound sculpture installation with fellow artist, Shomit Barua and we are so happy to be working together as a team again, just as…

THE BELA: ART, SOUND AND MUSIC, DEC 07, 2021
Degrees of Granularity: A porcelain sculpture and interactive sound installation

In this post The Bela discusses Degrees of Granularity, an interactive sound sculpture –the result of a collaboration between artists Christine Cassano and Shomit Barua. This work combines tiny porcelain pieces with distance sensors and multichannel granular sound running on Bela. Degrees of Granularity is a collaboration between artists Christine Cassano and Shomit Barua which was first …

SMOCA Studio Visit
Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Scottsdale Arts ONE Members are invited to an exclusive tour with artist Christine Cassano at her studio at Mesa Artspace Lofts in Mesa. SMoCA in the Studio gives ONE Members an insider’s look into the creative spaces of local artists. Mix and mingle with other contemporary art lovers and gain fascinating insights from Jennifer McCabe, director and chief curator of SMoCA.

SUMMER 2021

Exploring Sound, Synthesia, the Studio and Santa Fe. Click to read updates on the work and upcoming events.

SOUND INSTALLATION, FEBRUARY 2021
Exploring gravity, resonance, rhythm and time.

Gravity arranges collisions of the suspended bronze noēma bells. Interactions create oscillations to create infinite arrangements of pitches, tones and resonance. With time slowed down, the interdependence between gravity, vibration and time can be seen.

Degrees of Granulation is a sound sculpture collaboration between artists Christine Cassano and Shomit Barua. 500+ hand-formed pieces of paper-thin, translucent porcelain are delicately stacked on top of each other. The motion reactive audio is derived from the friction of these bone-like pieces.

The individual shape, weight and texture causes their edges to catch; their arrangement requires balance, and then they rest with precarious density. The noise they make when they shift is both corrosive and harmonic—sometimes their edges crack, crumble and deteriorate, other times they resonate and ring. While this sculpture exists for the moment in a delicate stasis, the inevitable rearrangement over time will grind the porcelain into dust.  

Conductive Pathways was commissioned for in the lobby of AC Hotel, Marriott Companies. It was installed in early 2021. Downtown Phoenix Arizona

Recursion exhibit at Mesa Artspace Gallery
155 S. Hibbert, Mesa AZ 85210

RECURSION

Gallery at Mesa Artspace
155 S. Hibbert, Mesa 85210
March 3rd – April 31st

Recursion is a solo exhibition of works with many created during Covid19 isolation. Through the use of recursive formations and patterns, Christine’s work explores connection, accumulation and convergence as metaphor within our new, hyper-connected era.

Covid-19: Gallery open by appointment only AND every Sunday from 1:30pm to 5:30pm with the artist on-site. Masks are required and attendance limited to 10 visitors at a time. Text or call 602.332.2604 to schedule a viewing with the artist.

SEQUENCE & CONJUNCTION

It’s an honor to have been the artist selected for this public art project in downtown Phoenix. Sequence and Conjunction is a large suspended ceiling art installation for the lobby of Wexford’s Biomedical Campus. 

Engulfed is a commissioned 22ft. metal panel of sepia toned aerial satellite imagery and aviation chart patterns. It is included in a client’s corporate collection in Houston, Texas. Additional images and project specifics here.