Cortney Cassidy is an artist and horticulturist using text, image, and sound to write poetry.

Hire me Designer of the modern dark mode, architect of dynamic theming, former editor for Google Design, and design ethics advocate. I worked as a horticulturist for the High Line during a career break followed by a sabbatical to write a book (forthcoming). If you are interested in engaging with my multidisciplinary hybrid practice that balances artistic sensibility with strategic clarity for your project, send me a message at cortneyvcassidy@gmail.com.

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Text

Strange Gardens Dark Properties, 2025

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

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

Can I Be An Artist Here American Institute of Graphic Arts, 2021

A Soft Manifesto The Creative Independent, 2020

Everyday Color Theory Google, 2020

Finding Ethical Design Google, 2020


Image

Photograph archive 2008–2023

flowers grow next to flower sculpture

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

S. Barely Real album, 2025

album cover featuring light trails distorted with print dot patterns

Quiet Please Barely Real single, 2024

Sounds Nice A collection of sounds that sound nice, 2020

Editions

Do Plants Feel? Expanded Issue Press, 2025

spread from a book about plants and feelings

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

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