“Daniela Cassetta's artwork largely reflects on her personal life and experiences placed in fantastical and eye-catching colorful worlds”

Artist Statement

Daniela Cassetta's artwork largely reflects on her personal life and experiences placed in fantastical and eye-catching colorful worlds. Daniela's art is very process-based, focusing more on the making of it than on the final product. Her mediums of choice are usually acrylic paint and oil pastel, through she is a jack of all trades and enjoys experimenting with mediums of all kinds. Daniela looks at her artwork as an opportunity to document her life. She sees art as a very personal expression of oneself, so her artwork will directly relate to her and her life. She often uses color to dial up emotion, allowing an audience to be there with her. She finds great joy in using high key color as it allows her to dramatize an otherwise mundane image. Being that her work is often is a reflection of her life, naturally her classroom as crept it's way into her work. She is both an educator and an artist; these identities will always inform each other. Her art has explored her small world and the events that have made her the person she is.

She has always taken great inspiration from the Fauvists. She holds the same love for color and visual chaos. The wild beast that is Fauvism will always have an important place in her process. Some specific contemporary names she finds inspriation from to are Nicole Eisenmann, Faith Ringgold, Alice Neel, Hope Gangloff, Jennifer Packer, and Susanna Coffey. Everyone she takes inspiration from reminds her to continue to push the envelope in her exploration of herself and her life.