ARTWORK

Intentional Gravity Paintings by Kassy Daggett

Current Shows…

Emerald Art Center (EAC) • 30th Annual Mayor’s Art Show
https://www.emeraldartcenter.org/ 500 Main St, Springfield, OR 97477
DATES: September 28th – October 28th, 2022 • Wed-Sat 11am-4pm
Mayor’s Art Show Awards Reception: Friday, September 30th • 5:30-7pm
Springfield Downtown 2nd Friday Art Walk: Friday, October 14th • 11am-7pm

ON DISPLAY: A mixed media painting that usually lives in our home.

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South Eugene Wellness Center, LLC, in the Tamarack Building
3575 Donald Street, Eugene, OR 97405
DATES: January 7, 2015 – Open Ended

ON DISPLAY: Amour Fou (Crazy Love), Big Leaf Maple, Bleeding Hearts, Calling All Angels, Climate Change, Darkness, New Growth, Pele’s Plumeria, and Rainbow Eucalyptus Dreams. PLUS: Giclée Reproductions of New Growth, Portal, Climate Change, and Rainbow Eucalyptus.

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Artist Statement

Sometimes, you know what you are meant to do long before you actually begin doing it. At the age of six I was asked to draw a series of pictures depicting myself, my family, my home, my pets, my teacher, something I liked, something I disliked, and “This is what I would like to be.” Recently, when I came across those drawings, I found a simply-drawn girl standing in front of a canvas, arms outstretched in a big gesture of “TaDa!”

The artist in that little girl took a circuitous route, but never strayed far from the elements of color and composition. For many years I owned a graphic design business where I learned about the shapes and shades of artistic expression. I became immersed in the process printing language of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and BlacK (CMYK). All around the house, art projects were always in various stages of composition, and I played with a wide range of mediums over the years.

But it wasn’t until January 18, 2013, when a severe downhill skiing accident forced me to slow down and recover, that I began to hear the persistent voice first heeded by that six-year-old child. In these paintings you’ll find her unique expression blended with a life long passion for surrendering to gravity while skiing.

While laying still during months of recovery from a shattered left shoulder, nerve damage in my right leg, and a head injury, I contemplated, “How might it be possible to translate the blissful feeling I have while skiing into a different activity?” I didn’t know if I’d be able to continue skiing and I needed to find another way of connecting to gravity. Prior to the accident I had been playing with acrylic paints for about a year. On June 6, 2013, almost five months after the accident, the spark of an idea took hold as a knowing.

It was time to start painting with gravity!

Just like standing above a steep hillside surveying the terrain before launching myself onto the fall line, I hold an intention for each painting and wait for a silent nudge to follow the momentum of gravity. My painting process is aerobic and immediate. It’s a relationship between my inner landscape and the expression that’s possible while paint is skiing down a canvas. I never know in advance what the finished piece will look like. I simply hold an intention—whether it’s gratitude, love, a person, place or thing—and like traversing a variety of runs down a mountain, each exploration is full of surprises.

Winston Churchill said, “Without innovation, art is a corpse.” These canvasses are my way of keeping the art—and the artist within—alive.

I’m currently painting with the limited palette of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, BlacK and a bit of white on occasion. I blend those “process colors” directly on the canvas to create the full spectrum of colors seen in each piece. I also returned to skiing about a year after the accident.

I hope you enjoy a glimpse into these “Intentional Gravity Paintings.

Here are some examples…(click images for a larger view)

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New Growth, Original 36″x44″ Acrylic and Texture on Reclaimed Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Portal, Original 36″x48″ Acrylic on Canvas (original SOLD, giclées available)

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Climate Change, Original 36″x48″ Acrylic on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Rainbow Eucalyptus, Original 36″x48″ Acrylic on Canvas (original SOLD, giclées available)

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Pele’s Plumeria, Original 60″x84″ Acrylic on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Amour Fou (Crazy Love), Original 60″x84″ Acrylic on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Evolution of Storytelling, 48″x24” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Falling Up, 48″x36” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Floating Orbs, 48″x36” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Hawaiian Woodland, 48″x36” Liquid Acrylic on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Holding On By A String, 48″x36” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Bleeding Hearts, 48″x36” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Into the Mist, 36″x48” Liquid Acrylic on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Scuba, 48″x36” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (original and giclées available)

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Calling All Angels, 36″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas

IMAGE TO COME

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Big Leaf Maple, Four 12″x12″ panels in a 25″x25″ Acrylic on Canvas Polyptych (original and giclées available)

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NOTE: Some of the images above are “place holders” until higher quality reproductions are available to post.

Original Art:
Please inquire about purchasing originals. Giclée Reproductions available in a wide variety of sizes.

Limited Edition Prints:
Giclée Reproductions available for New Growth, Portal, Climate Change, and Rainbow Eucalyptus.
18″x24″ Giclée on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
18″x24″ Giclée on Watercolor Paper
9″x12″ Giclée on Watercolor Paper w/Mat or without Mat
5″x7″ Greeting Card with Frameable 4″x6″ Image (individual or mixed sets)

LIST OF ADDITIONAL IMAGES NOT YET POSTED OR PREVIOUSLY SOLD:

• Autumn Scarf, 48″x12″ Acrylic on Canvas (sold)
• Calling All Angels, 36″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas (sold)
• Frequency, 48″x12” Acrylic & Gel on Canvas (sold)
• Gratitude, 40″x30″ Acrylic on Canvas (sold)
• Rainbow Eucalyptus, 48″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas (sold)
• Darkness, 36″x24″ Acrylic on Canvas
• Gravity, 54″x27″ Acrylic on Canvas
• Rainbow Eucalyptus Dreams, 36″x24″ Acrylic on Canvas
• Rainbow Eucalyptus Visions, 60″x36″ Acrylic on Canvas

PREVIOUS GALLERIES & SHOWINGS:

• Emerald Art Center, Membership Shows
  August 3 – 26, 2022
  June 8 – July 1, 2022
  April 6 – 29, 2022
  March 11 – April 5, 2022
  ON DISPLAY: Calling All Angels (theme exhibit) and The Evolution of Storytelling (general gallery)
• Springfield Arts Commission, Springfield City Hall, March 1-31, 2022
  THEME: Gravity & Gratitude, This show included some of my largest Intentional Gravity Paintings.
• Nature Cures Clinic, “East Meets West”, February 2, 2015 – April 2, 2021
• Pagatim Studios (First Friday – Portland’s Eastside Artwalk) June 6th, 2014 – January 31, 2015
• Adell McMillan Gallery, University of Oregon, EMU, sponsored by the Cultural Forum, December 3, 2014 – January 7, 2015, Opening Reception: Wed, Dec. 3, 2014, 6:30-8pm (7pm presentation by Kassy)
• 1st Friday Artwalk, Benessere Chiropractic, March 1-31, 2014, Opening Reception March 7th
• Agate Alley Laboratory, Nov. 2, 2013 – Jan 2, 2014 and March – August 2014
• Pearl Day Spa, September 2013
• New Zone Gallery, Salon du Pueple, August – October 2013

EUGENE-A-GOGO: Here’s a little video they produced

For more information or to commission a painting, purchase an original, or order a reproduction, call (541) 912-4940 or email Kassy.

Thanks for your interest!