“Desire Paths”, a new, landscape focused exhibition, featuring polaroid photographs and paintings by Rhode Island artists Andrea Cacase and Kevin Calisto, will be open July through September at Kendall Reiss Gallery & Studio in Bristol, R.I.
Exhibit available through September 15, 2024
Desire paths are created through interaction. They are indicative of an unmarked trail, one that is created by humans or animals. A furrowed footpath worn lovingly into the earth. Desire paths are clearly visible in the landscape, often emerging as a shortcut across a park, meadow, or urban space. They are deliberate, intentional, and recognizable.
Desire Paths are about familiarity, a sense of knowing, revisitation, and habitual movement. Artists Andrea Cacase and Kevin Calisto each approach familiar landscapes with a sense of care and awe. Sharing their delicate attunement to shifts in temperature and the quality of light as seasons progress, Cacase and Calisto are deep observers. These are sceneries they have visited and revisited over and over again throughout the course of their lifetimes, carving their own desired paths in the process. Identifying changes and shifts in tides and weather, and grieving for the loss of the once known. Marshes and trees, stones and shorelines, polaroid’s and paintings as microclimates, love letters to an unknown future.
About: Andrea Cacase
Andrea Cacase is a New England based artist and designer. She has been documenting life with one “photo” a day since the beginning of the pandemic. Her work explores themes of loss, grief, healing and recovery.
About: Kevin Calisto
Kevin Calisto’s current practice is concerned with exploring the changing environment of the Mill Gut Salt Marshes at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI. The dramatic landscapes created by erosion and tides are evidence of an evolving ecosystem. These works document elements of loss, memories and resilience. Calisto creates a relationship with this space and continues to learn and research more about its existence.
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