Casey Riordan Millard
Casey Riordan is an American artist based in Cincinnati. She works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and publication.
Early life and education
Casey Riordan obtained a bachelor's degree in fine art in 1994 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.[1]
Career and practice
Riordan works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and publication. She aims in her work to "create a temporary distraction from the weight of oneself”.[2]
Riordan's artwork has been displayed in various cities and states such as Cincinnati, Ohio, Buffalo,[3] New York, and Chicago, Illinois. The majority of Riordan's pieces include her original character, Shark Girl.
Shark Girl
Riordan's character, Shark Girl, appears in many of her illustrations, paintings, and sculptures. Shark Girl is a young girl with the head of a shark created in 2004. She was a way for Riordan to "reflect her own anxieties".[4][5] A fiberglass sculpture of Shark Girl was built[6] for the Ohio River Downtown with a $6,000 grant in 2012. Visitors used the piece as a photo-op, turning it to have the Ohio River in the background. Around Easter 2014, visitors began to deface Shark Girl with graffiti. The city left repairs in Riordan's hands. Soon after, Aaron Ott, the public art curator at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo purchased the sculpture and the museum created a fund to maintain it.[4] The sculpture was moved to Buffalo, where it became a popular local landmark.[7][8]
A 4-minute YouTube video published in 2013 entitled "Come Follow Me" features Shark Girl. The video, created for Riordan's 2012 installation at the Contemporary Arts Center's UnMuseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, follows Shark Girl on a journey leading her to a horse, which is also featured as a sculpture in the installation. The video features drawings and animation by Riordan, with editing and co-direction by Ossian Mendoza and music by John Aselin.[9]
Shark Girl is the title character in Riordan Millard's 2014 children's book Shark Girl & Belly Button.[6]
Exhibitions
| Upcoming Exhibitions | |
|---|---|
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York | July 2017 |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
|---|---|
| ArtWorks, Kennedy Heights Arts Center Annex, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2016 |
| Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Canalside, Buffalo, New York | 2015 |
| Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky | 2014 |
| Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio | 2013 |
| Findlay Street Project Space, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2013 |
| Cincinnati Recreation Commission, Yeatman's Cove, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2013 |
| UnMuseum, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2012 |
| PAC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2011 |
| Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2011 |
| Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana | 2011 |
| Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2009 |
| Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2008 |
| The Carnegie, Covington, Kentucky | 2008 |
| Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2006 |
| Group Exhibitions | |
|---|---|
| Faculty Art Show, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2016 |
| Escape Hatch Collective, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2015 |
| The Fine Art of Illustration, Gallery One One, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2014 |
| Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, Indiana | 2013 |
| SOFA Chicago, with the Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2012 |
| John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin | 2010 |
| PAC Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2010 |
| Summerfair Group Exhibition, Funkes Fired Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2010 |
| For the Birds, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky | 2010 |
| 20 Years/20 Artists, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2010 |
| UTurn Gallery, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2010 |
| Evanston Arts Center, Once Upon a Time and Now, Evanston, Illinois | 2009 |
| Fuller Craft Museum, The Perfect Fit, Brockton, Massachusetts | 2009 |
| Fine arts Fund, Enjoy the Arts 20/20 Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2008 |
| Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio Arts Council juried show, Columbus, Ohio | 2008 |
| Art Chicago, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2008 |
| Bridge Art Fair, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Miami, Florida | 2007 |
| Music Show II, through Publico Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2007 |
| Art Chicago, with the Packer-Schopf Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2007 |
| Gen Art, Ignite! 2006 Chicago, Chicago, Illinois | 2006 |
| Art Chicago, with the Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2006 |
| University of Cincinnati, WordArt, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2005 |
| Aron Packer Gallery, Four, Chicago, Illinois | 2005 |
| The Affordable Art Fair, with the Aron Packer Gallery, NYC, New York | 2004 |
| Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | 2003 |
References
- ^ "Design Revival". AIGA Cincinnati. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ "Casey Riordan". caseyriordanmillard.com. Archived from the original on July 6, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ Hooper, Ben (August 27, 2015). "Bizarre 'Shark Girl' sculpture celebrates 'birthday' in Buffalo". UPI. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ a b "Artist's 'Shark Girl' finds new success in book, Buffalo". Cincinnati.com. Retrieved March 4, 2017.
- ^ Hirtzel, Ashley (October 30, 2014). "How 'Shark Girl' came to be". WBFO. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ a b "'Shark Girl' sculptor Casey Riordan Millard to speak at Albright-Knox Art Gallery". The Buffalo News. October 14, 2014. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ "Erie County: Newest public art offering brings colorful greeting to international audience". Niagara Frontier Publications. October 8, 2015. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ Cameron, Dell (October 15, 2015). "This horrifying goat-man mascot wants you to start recycling". The Daily Dot. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
- ^ Casey R. Millard (February 12, 2013), Shark Girl, Come Follow Me, 2012, retrieved March 4, 2017
External links
- Engebrecht, Julie (October 10, 2014). "Artist's 'Shark Girl' finds new success in book, Buffalo". Cincinnati Enquirer.