Nina Rasekhi Casan
The material investigation of my work is focused on oil painting techniques and principles that allow me to create realistic mimicry of artists materials or spaces, through a combination of real objects and their painted imitations. Developed from painted imitation of oil-paint tubes, paint brushes, and artists tape, my work has developed into reconstructed faux walls. The progression into space has allowed for a more open dialogue, where the viewer is becoming progressively more aware of the artifice and of the different layers of illusion created within the composition of real objects and illusory painting.