Sandra Cassayre

Sandra Cassayre is a painter living in Napa, California. Her paintings examine the nuances of domestic life and the visual narratives latent within domestic space. Cassayre holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been exhibited at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, the Marin Society of Artists, San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, the De Young Museum, and Thornton Tomasetti, San Francisco.

Her domestics series explores the attached garage as the little noticed documentarian of suburban life. The garage is a space that exists somewhere between the proper home and the outside world where it slowly digests what the home has consumed. It begs investigation and is overflowing with meaning. The random passerby who sees an open garage has inadvertently pulled back the shower curtain and receives a startling overload of visual information. If the information is processed and considered, a portrait will be created of the person who lives in the home. These paintings encourage us to reflect on our own accumulated possessions and what stories are held in these vessels of exosomatic memory.