Rectangle Fleeting

Edmond Casarella

In 1998, the Hirschl and Adler Galleries in New York presented the exhibition Out of Bounds: Jacob Kainen, Sylvia Wald, Edmond Casarella. Joseph Goddu and Shelley Farmer wrote the introduction in the brochure for the exhibition: “The totemic imagery in Edmond Casarella’s monoprints of the early 1960s has its parallel in his painting and sculpture of that period. His development of an additive relief process for making printing blocks reflected a sculptor’s solution to the problem of how to suggest and manipulate form in a two-dimensional medium. Transparent veils of colors, achieved through multiple printings from a single block, yield prints of enduring beauty that blur traditional distinctions between painting, printmaking and sculpture.”