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Jacob Kassay

BornNationalityBased In
1984AmericanNew York City
Biography

Born in 1984 in Lewiston, NY, Jacob Kassay lives and works in New York. The artist challenges the traditional parameters of artmaking in conceptually driven installations that respond to and occupy their environment in unexpected ways. The arrangement of an exhibition and how his pieces interact with the surrounding architecture – and ultimately their audience – is key to understanding the essence of his work. Kassay’s paintings interrelate and form multiple dialogues: with each other, with the space around them and with the viewer. The language of materials is important to Kassay, who pays great attention to form, surface and physicality. Although lacking marks that could be conceived as gestural, a close inspection of his seemingly blank or monotone paintings reveals traces of their making – small incidental marks, or burnt edges, for example. Jacob Kassay’s practice also encompasses film and sculpture. Critic Alex Bacon has written that his work “actively poses the question—what does it mean to be represented?…This kind of aesthetic activity is suspended somewhere between the “real” world that is reflected, and the particular aesthetic world a painting inhabits as an…autonomous thing.” ...

Selected Artworks
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2016
26.7 x 17.7cm
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2016
42 x 28cm
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Jacob Kassay
l\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/l, 2020
151.29 x 85.09cm
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2018
30.48 x 40.64cm
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2016
42 x 28cm
Footrest (2)
Jacob Kassay
Footrest (2), 2016
51.4 x 26 x 30.5cm
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2015
146 x 20.3cm
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2014
213 x 152cm
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Jacob Kassay
F, 2014
144.15 x 20.96cm
Unwall
Jacob Kassay
Unwall, 2014
129.54 x 51.44cm
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Jacob Kassay
Untitled, 2015
94.8 x 92.5cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Gwangju Biennial2010 - Gwangju
Gwangju Biennial2010 - Gwangju
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