Artwork copyright Cassandria Blackmore. Photo courtesy of the artist, by Russell Johnson.

Artwork copyright Cassandria Blackmore. Photo courtesy of the artist, by Russell Johnson.

Artwork copyright Cassandria Blackmore. Photo courtesy of the artist, by Russell Johnson.

Artwork copyright Cassandria Blackmore. Photo courtesy of the artist, by Russell Johnson.

Cadence, 2010

Cassandria Blackmore
American (born 1968)

Location: University of Washington, Seattle

About the Artwork

Commissioned for the University of Washington's Jones Playhouse Theatre, Cassandria Blackmore's Cadence evokes the audience's range of emotions during a theatrical performance. Blackmore was inspired to create this piece after watching people move through the theatre's lobby space, from the street entrance and box office to the theater itself. She was struck by what makes theater a performing art. She also asked herself how visual art can express the essence of performance art in an abstract way. Her answer is a shift of colors, from cool to warm, across a long, horizontal plain, representing shifting emotions. In her own words, "There is movement and color in the shifting of one emotion to another. Where they meet in the middle is just as compelling as where they begin and end." Cadence is reverse-painted on glass that has then been shattered to create a unique texture in the piece.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with University of Washington.

About the Artist

Cassandria Blackmore is a Seattle-based artist. She uses a glass shattering process on her paintings to create figurative and abstract images. She “learned at a very early age that everything had a process. Creativity was integral to existing. This has informed her process oriented work.”
Blackmore received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1992) from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.