Cassandra Chalfant’s work delves into the ways we experience our most personal images. How do we hold them, alter them, imagine, or escape them? Why do we review them over and over again? Using photographs, memory, and objects as source material, Chalfant explores her own memories, the collective memories of her family, and the imagined worlds she has created. Through painting, Chalfant immerses herself and the viewer in places she’s been, and in the unknowable experiences of others. In 2023, her work will be included in the forthcoming New American Paintings no. 162. She has participated in several group shows in Colorado, Oregon, New York, and Pennsylvania, and internationally in Rome, Italy. Chalfant holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing with a Minor in Political Science from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA.

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