Uses humor and irony, Cassidy Toner explores themes of failure, repetition, and the absurdities embedded in contemporary life. Her work reflects on societal expectations and personal experiences, examining the pressures of performance and the tensions between success, missteps, and human vulnerability, inviting viewers to consider the complexities of everyday life. Toner works across a range of media, including ceramics, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, and text. She frequently incorporates recurring motifs and characters, transforming familiar cultural references into tools for critique and reflection. Her compositions interrogate the boundaries between the serious and the comic, inviting viewers to consider how narratives of achievement and failure shape individual and collective experience. Through her inventive use of materials and conceptual frameworks, Toner balances introspection with wit, crafting works that are simultaneously engaging, critical, and thought-provoking. Her practice emphasizes the fluidity of meaning, the interplay between narrative and form, and the potential of art to question established norms while celebrating human imperfection. ...
