C.M. Kakassy

Snack Time

Serigraph on Paper, 20 3/4 x 25 1/2

I came to the United States from France with my parents in 1938. Although I was raised in an academic and artistic environment, my interest in art did not manifest itself until the 1950s. Those early influences led me to enroll in the North Shore Art League in Winnetka, Illinois, where I studied with Rudolph Penn, Abbot Pattison, and Gordon Simon.

After moving to Gastonia in 1966, I continued my studies at Gaston College with Frank Creech, Dexter Benedict, John Merritt, and Pam Norcross. Spirit Square in Charlotte offered many opportunities for growth and development and my work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums throughout the Carolinas.

I aspire to create vibrant and provocative images that offer a wide range of interpretation: images that challenge, intrigue, and stimulate a response to the work from the viewer’s own frame of reference,” she said. “How the observer interprets the art becomes the person’s reality. My objective is to excite the eye in a visual experience using abstract shapes, colors, marks, and texture to create an aesthetic composition. The aim is always to push the experimental edge.