Featured Artists
“Pops Casey” U.S.A
“Pops Casey” is the true, self-taught, Outside Artist.
As a young man, Casey - as he was known then - discovered and fell in love with Black and White Photography. He was good at it and began to curate beautiful prints. Photography became his first form of art.
In his middle years, Casey was a carpenter by profession. Working with wood, he learned its strength and limitations - the life force within it. During this time, something deeper was going on inside him. He began to develop an interest in antiques - a sense for their beauty, their history, the art their craftsmanship represented. Casey began his journey to becoming “Pops Casey”.
As “Pops Casey” matured, he set out to create his own art - first for himself and then for others. He blended his three talents: his artists eye, mastery of wood skills, and love of old things - to find his special work, the Tramp Art Style of Folk Art.
Within the last 25 years, “Pops Casey” has been creating works of art drawing from our country’s past, his life experiences, his family, cultural and religious traditions. His works are one of a kind and without parallel.
Today, his unique and singular works of art grace homes, offices and the casual eye all across the U.S.A.
“Pops Casey” and his art have been showcased and sold in art galleries, auctions and art fairs in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota.
“Pops Casey” and his work showcase the inherent impact of his cultural heritage and pride in his country, hence his U.S.A trademark. His training in carpentry validates why his work is such an essential example of true “Folk Art”.
Most of his work contains some sense of utility, a way of giving back and putting use to the craftsman ship used while creating these pieces of art.
About Brandon
"Question the importance and relevance of both the past and present art world."
Brandon Johnson blends his experiences as a painter, a designer, and a carpenter to create works that both embrace the history of art while also challenging their worth by defacing them. Using representational realism as a foundation, he distorts the line between art and vandalism to question the importance and relevance of both the past and present art world, all the while infusing it with a sense of tongue and cheek irony. He studied for three years at the American Academy of Art while pursuing a Bachelors in Fine Art degree with a specialization in oil painting. He has shown his work in the Rockwell Collectives Salon show, where he won the Judges best in show, and he showed his work in The SouthShore Arts 76th Annual Salon show, where he won the Wanda L. and Richard W. Gardner Memorial Award. Currently, he works out of his studio in Northwest Indiana.