Cortney Cassidy (C.C.) is an artist, writer, horticulturist, and one third of barely real. contact: ccsemail at mailbox dot org
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Leave Me Alone, I’m Doing My Best Feature interview for Local Optimist Issue 4, 2025
Growing Beyond the Computer Are.na x Dark Properties, 2024
A Pious Work of Salvage ongoing project first presented in a guest lecture to Virginia Commonwealth University’s grad seminar, 2024
Authentic Type Specimens AUTHENTIC, 2024
Ambient Music Plays Google, 2024
Cherry Chapstick Are.na, 2024
Notable Spinsters included in Korte Metten at Kieken Centrale, Antwerp, Belgium 2024 and an earlier version was published as I Just Need Space in The Smudge, July 2019
All the flowers in May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude Third edition in the Everything I know about...so far series published by The Institute for the Study of the Urtext’s Urditions imprint, 2024
It Was Good Supporting text for the final photography show at Rubus Discolor Project, 2023 and originally created for unzip.site, 2019
Getting On Floral Observer, Summer 2023
Poetry’s So Common Hardly Anyone Can Find It Are.na Annual 2022, and the final graduating thesis for the completion of my DIY MFA
The Circus Tent is a Good Metaphor for the Whole Show Going on Inside Mixed-media essay published in the anthology, Our Red Book, Simon & Schuster, 2022
On The Other Hand The Smudge (Final Issue), December 2021
Can I Be An Artist Here American Institute of Graphic Arts, 2021
A Soft Manifesto The Creative Independent, 2020
Practice Everyday The Smudge, April 2020
Everyday Color Theory Google, 2020
Finding Ethical Design Google, 2020
Midwinter Day Day ongoing project first published in The Creative Independent, 2019
A Freight Train Running Through the Middle of My Head The Smudge, January 2019
Image
Photograph archive 2008–2023
Fragments Magic Chef Gallery, 2021
Soft Rock commissioned for the group exhibition Soothe at Sugarlift, New York, 2020
Still Life Sixty one-second consecutive non-moments filmed with an iphone over the span of two years, featured in Video Snack 7 at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, 2019
Here Is Me A slow dialogue built through image correspondence with Debbie Carlos, City Limits, Oakland, California, 2014
Sound
Quiet Please Barely Real single, 2024
Sounds Nice A collection of sounds that sound nice, 2020
Doc Martens Glowy single and video, 2015
Performance
Circus Tent Performance for the release of Our Red Book at McNally Jackson, New York, 2022
Knotes An archive of thoughts collected throughout an endless knitting project, live stream performance and installation at Destelheide, Beersel, Belgium, 2021
who am i and who cares Reading at E.M. Wolfman Books, 2017 and at Land and Sea for the release of As of Late poetry anthology, 2019, Oakland, California
99 Reading and performance, Grafixx 2016, Antwerp, Belgium, 2016
A performance piece in which the artist hugs a mound of dirt for an arbitrary amount of time Mountain View Cemetery, California, 2013
Editions
Do Plants Feel? Expanded Issue Press, 2025
Yes Plants Do Feel Issue Press, 2021
Mail Blog ongoing mail art series since 2020
99 Issue Press, 2018
The Watch Custom watch design, 2018
Do Plants Feel? Issue Press, 2015
Press
New York Magazine Featured in the ninth reason to love New York, December 2024