Casaletto, Kristin
Casaletto’s art centers on socio-political challenges of 21st-century life in a super-power nation, addressing power imbalances (racial, economic, gendered) or perilous trends (nationalism, complacency) as perceived from her position within a working-class, mixed-race family. Her innovative approaches to drawing, painting, and printmaking confront the complex relationships among corruption and redemption, justice and injustice. The work dives deeply into both formalist and conceptual concerns to suggest multiple meanings.
Casaletto exhibits nationally and internationally and has shown with such artists as Nick Cave, Betye Saar, Sue Coe, and Faith Ringgold. She has won awards from Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (DC), Georgia Humanities Council (Atlanta), Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC), and others. Her art is in museum collections such as the Library of Congress and the Broad Museum of Art in E. Lansing, Mich. Recent solo shows were in New York City; Monterey, California; and at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia.
