Alex Casso + Tajh Rust
residency location | san antonio, us + new haven, us
AIRs June 9-15, 2020
AIRs June 9-15, 2020
Alex Casso is an Artist, Educator, and Museum Professional. He recently relocated to San Antonio, Texas after working in New York for 11 years. Focused in drawing and painting, he taught in all five boroughs and worked for almost a decade in notable NYC institutions. He was a founding member of The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling.
Since moving to San Antonio in January 2020, he re-opened his studio and works at The San Antonio Museum of Art digitizing key pieces in the collection to serve as an online public resource under a grant from National Endowment for the Humanities. He currently teaches an after school program for refugee children through Inspire Fine Arts Center and will be the founding member, Art Teacher, at Promesa Academy in San Antonio’s undeserved west side community.
︎Alex’s IG
Tajh Rust is a visual artist based in New York and New Haven.
Through figuration and abstraction, he explores the relationships between black identity and space. Rust collaborates with his subjects to determine how they are represented and also employs film and literary references to draw connections between portraiture, language, and modes of representation. While also taking inspiration from his own travels and imagination, Rust manipulates the boundary between realism and surrealism.
︎Tajh’s Website