John Casey At Receiver Gallery

John Casey's drawings are in *Strange Fruit – Bad Seeds.* at Receiver Gallery along with the work of Martha Sue Harris. I love the idea of a "fictitious human morphology" which is referred to in gallery's post for the show. It reminds me of the phenomenon of phantom limbs: feeling limbs after you've lost them. Can you see the carrot coming out of my head? From the press release: _Born on Friday the 13th, 1964 in Salem, Massachusetts, John Casey has been inventing creatures as soon as he was able to hold a crayon. Drawings that his mother saved from when he was only three years old reveal an obsession with the figure. The figures in these drawings show not only the distorted perceptions of a child, but a fascination with skulls, teeth, spirographic eyes, and invented body parts. This obsession with strange creatures continued throughout his youth. "Monster models, war dioramas, dinosaurs, and horror movies on the T.V. [this included "Creature Double Feature" on Saturday afternoons, of course] occupied much of my time."_