Casey Newberg

For the past two years, my work has been focusing on feelings of adulthood displacement and childhood trauma by placing familiar or recognizable objects in rotten contexts.

Many of the pieces created throughout these years incorporate foul language or materials that will self destruct over time. Viewers are required to spend time unpacking these seemingly friendly, almost childish items only to realize the works being viewed are being consumed by the air around them, or have something backhanded to say. These pieces can be immediately seen as cute, or almost delicious when it comes to their color, but when required to look further, they aren’t happy little objects, but more so frustrated relics from some unfamiliar timeline. These works have a desire to linger, both physically and emotionally, as collectables created from memory of a childhood that still seems to confuse me.

About Casey Newberg
TYL Metals/Jewelry/Cad-Cam ‘22

Casey Newberg is a second year Graduate Student in the Metals, Jewelry, CAD/CAM program at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA. Newberg got her undergraduate degree from Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan where she began her career in metals and jewelry design. Throughout undergrad, her work focused on the intimate relationships she began to deconstruct with not only herself but with maternity and femininity as a whole. What came out of her career at this point were electroformed vessels that mirrored similar and often provocative shapes bodies create when creating or growing life. Shortly after leaving KCAD, her family was diagnosed with a rare neurodegenerative disease that is genetic and incurable. Upon receiving this news, her electroformed work stopped for a period and she began to focus on the ephemerality and somewhat rotten nature of life. As she continued in graduate school, Newberg began developing work that focused on impermanence and followed lines of medical dependence and consumerism.