Wolhar, Casey
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Casey Wolhar
Casey Wolhar is an MFA student in Time-Based Art at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Wolhar is a performance artist born in Newark, Delaware. She received her BA in Studio Art and Communications, summa cum laude at Washington College in 2020. Her work has been featured in Washington College’s yearly student exhibition, 100 Proof. She has also shown work in online exhibitions including VisArts Gallery’s Solo Lab 545 (Rockville, Maryland, 2020). Now based in Knoxville, Tennessee, she continues to make work that dares to question the undefinable.
Artist Statement
There are questions in life that seem unanswerable. How do you change the unchangeable? How do you hold a memory? How do you measure the distance between two souls? Through performance art, I investigate questions with no answers and search for meaning within the human experience.
When creating my work, I think of my body as a conductor of movement. I use performative gestures along with other materials to explore my own feelings, relationships, and place within the world. These gestures often appear simplistic in nature but work in a dual physical and poetic fashion. The act of performance may be a futile way to wrestle with the universe’s mysteries. Nevertheless, I find inner meaning in my work; even when reality doesn’t make sense, I can make sense of myself within reality.