Amy Casey is Butler's choice for the CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize. Casey is a painter, as well as a print maker.

A meet the artist reception is being held March 17, from 1 P.M. until 3 P.M.

She lives in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, and you can see bits of her hometown in her art. A lot of the buildings Casey paints are actually real buildings, although sometimes altered.

Casey uses images of buildings as stand-ins for human action and endeavors. She made a large series of paintings that explores and exposes different mechanisms of catastrophe.

In some images, piles of buildings are stacked so high they begin to topple under their own weight. Some of her recent pieces of work show buildings affected by floods and surrounded by oceans of water.

"My work frequently touches on or is driven by my anxiety and hopes for the world. Too much news! It weaves its way in. I think my work has long seen the world and our place as insecure." Casey said.

Casey received her BFA in Painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and attended the Yale Summer School of Art and Music. She is a two-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. 

Her exhibition will be on view in the Davis Gallery