Noel Kassewitz
Rococo Remastered
January 3 – February 2, 2020
How does an artist prepare for climate change?
Noel Kassewitz’s practice examines how a painter copes with a rapidly changing cultural and environmental landscape. Using experimental techniques that blur the line between painting and sculpture, passive and active object, cultural artifact and survival tool, she works to examine this moment in time through the lens of art history, rising social pressures, and commodified disaster preparedness. In her latest body of work, Rococo Remastered, Kassewitz delves into the historical clues left to us by the pastel-colored art movement that preceded France’s revolution and reinterprets the works through the lens of Miami pool-party culture for today’s audiences.
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Noel Kassewitz was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her works have exhibited nationally in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Miami, as well as internationally in Milan and Bologna, Italy. She currently resides in Washington, DC.
