Reflections

Edmond Casarella

Edmond Casarella is best known for his sculpture and his innovative paper relief prints. This 1953 abstraction in gouache is based on a subject which intrigued him in all media - reflection and the interplay and interaction of abstract shapes and colors.

A printmaker, painter, and sculptor, Edmond Casarella was born in Newark, New Jersey on September 3, 1920. After studying at Cooper Union in New York, Casarella was hired by Antony Velonis to print serigraphs at Creative Printmakers under the National Youth Administration. His stint in the military was followed with studies at the School of the Brooklyn Museum under the GI Bill between 1949 and 1951.

At the end of the 1950s he returned to the United States, after having earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1956 he began teaching, starting with classes at the Brooklyn Museum graphic workshop. He went on to teach courses at Cooper Union, Art Students League, Finch College, and Hunter College, and held temporary teaching positions at Yale, Rutgers, Columbia, and Pratt Universities.

In his later career, from the mid-1960s, he predominantly worked in sculpture. Casarella’s prints, paintings, and sculptures have been included in numerous exhibitions and galleries throughout the United States and Eastern Europe, and are included in many public collections.