Terminal Uniqueness

October 8, 2019

I created my first set of paintings in Garden City, Idaho with my public studio open to the public every first Friday. I showed these without names or prices to get a feel for what people responded to and I was surprised to discover that favorite paintings are often as unique as the people who chose them. With abstraction people often saw things I didn't mean to paint - I could take pieces further once I had more time to look at them so there were often changes after people saw them or I looked at them longer. With realism people often picked the same favorite. It's only with art and the public that I can experience these pure experiments with meaning. The work will be on exhibition in Plattsmouth, NE on March 29 and April 5, 2025.

Mildewed Paper

Turkey Rachel

Pueblo Peak

Baby Shower

Southpaw

Borah Peak

Diminishing Returns

Scarab and Hypercube

Cinderella

Freyja

Purple Rain

Zombotron

White on White

Have a Nice Day

Video installation

A Burial at Sea

Casey Hallas 2021

Leif Buffet

Home Studio

Fall Colors

Light in the Desert

Robot Dancer

Horus

Scale, Originals

Action Painting

H Brothers

Home Studio

Boise Foothills in Spring

Buried Treasure

Cheerios on my Counter

Great Sand Dunes

Chocolate Cosmos

Sign Shadow

Milk Poms

Minnie Minoso

Polyamory

In Process

Run Rabbit Run

String Theory

Casey Hallas, Age 21

Terminal Uniqueness

Watercolor Halo

Urban Landscape

Diodes of Regret

Coat of Many Colors

Heyoka

Watership Down

Artist's Palette

Rascal in the Yucca

Summertime Sadness

Hat's Off 2020

St. Nietzsche

My favorite 26 paintings printed for an exhibition in Garden City.

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The Spider’s Cave

May 21, 2019

The spider is a sculptural installation that’s used for video mapping. I’m using 3 different kinds of fabric – flag cloth, gauze and voile. The light will pass through the layers so when I map to one surface you can see it on more than one layer. It also passes through to the wall. It’s dynamic in the sense that wind will affect the surfaces as well. The subtext is I created something out of leftover construction supplies when I lived in New Mexico and I’ve always been working toward projecting the scene of the original onto the sculpture. It’s a way of trying to capture/recreate a moment…a time machine. And my spirit animal – the Bold Jumper, phidippus audax. When I did my installation with Love Tribe I used these panels upside down to form the face of the spider (a total coincidence BTW). From there I designed a single panel with Beej that he sewed for my camper – that I used at Paseo in Taos when DJ Bonehead hooked me up with a gig.