Entrances and Exits at the Academy Art Museum
Academy Art Museum
Easton, Maryland
April 2018
Elizabeth Casqueiro’s work is a study of masked identity in its many forms and purposes. She is interested in how, from an early age, we acquire and shed identities as seamlessly as an accomplished stage actor or fictional superhero. She says, “Masters of the entrance and exit, our stage personas come and go in an ever changing script.”
Elizabeth’s current body of work taps into the playful and entertaining origins of identity through a series of works involving the action hero, the stage actor, and what she calls “the cheesy plot.” Through the melding of opacity and translucency, structure and fluidity, and figuration and abstraction, she alludes to identity’s perpetual dance between order and chaos, exposure and concealment, and connection and disruption.
