Untitled Horizon, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36″

Untitled Twilight, 2018. Acrylic and resin on board, 10 x 10″

Unitled Purple Rain, 2018. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 25.5 x 33”

Untitled Forsythia, 2018. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 25.5 x 33”

Creation Myth, 2018. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 25.5 x 33”

Untitled Iris, 2018. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 25.5 x 33″

Untitled Hay Stacks, 2018. Mixed media on watercolor paper, 25.5 x 33”

Untitled, 2016. Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 18.5 x 26″ (framed 21.875 x 28”)

Untitled, 2018. Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 9 x 12” (framed 11.75 x 14.75″)

 

Untitled, 2018. Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 9 x 12” (framed 11.75 x 14.75″)

Untitled Flowers, 2018. Mixed media on canvas, 40 x 46″

Untitled, 2018. Mixed media on paper, 25.5 x 33” framed

Abby Kasonik holds a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, department of Sculpture. 

Her paintings often portray indistinct and shadowy figures along the horizon lines, have a unique depth, and a quiet she perceives around her. Her palette of cool blues, grays, greens, add to the atmospheric, dream-like terrain of the work.

Kasonik’s work has been exhibited widely along the east coast. Her work has been featured in such publications as Southern Living, Virginia Living, the Huffington Post, and is in many public and private collections including that of the  the Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia.

Education
1998 BFA Sculpture, magna cum laude, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Selected Exhibitions
2018 Trio, Welcome Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2015 Saturate, The Athenaeum Museum / NVFAA, Alexandria, VA
2011 Commence, Bill Lowe Gallery , Atlanta, GA
2010 Time Out, Second Street Gallery , Charlottesville, VA
2009 Transition, H. Scott November Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Ratio, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2004-2011 And George, Charlottesville, VA
2004-2005 Station Restaurant, Charlottesville, VA
2005-200 The Barn Swallow, Charlottesville, VA
2007 The Rentz Gallery, Richmond, VA
2007-2010 Quince, Charlottesville, VA
2008-2010 Moxie, Charlottesville, VA
2007 New Members Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Benefit III, Home, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Group Show, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Surveillance, Mudhouse, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Spitfire, Idle Hour, Baltimore, MD
2005 Benefit II, Home, Charlottesville, VA
2004 Benefit I, Kenny Ball Antique, Charlottesville, VA
2004 New Paintings, Mudhouse, Charlottesville, VA

Selected Collections
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
Lee and Robert Griffith, Sommerset VA, Atlanta GA
Jackey and Joel Bieber, Richmond VA
Sydney and Matt Gottwald, Richmond VA
Christina Proenza-Coles and George Coles
Loring Woodriff and Justi Campa, Charlottesville, VA
Merrill and Jaffray Woodrif, Charlottesville, VA
Ted Turner, Atlanta GA
Nancy and Richard Dorshel, Rochester NY, Orlando FL
Judith and Kennett Simmons, Austin TX
Karen Hulebak and Joseph Rodricks, Louisa, VA
Jennifer and Frank Winslow, Charlottesville, VA
Donna and Richard Tadler, Boston MA, Charleston SC, Charlottesville VA

“Fluid Dynamics”, Sarah Sargent, Virginia Living Magazine, (pg. 35), June 2015

“Top 15 Home Decor Trendsetters From the South”, Pamela Berger, Huffington Post November 2013

“Light & Aerie,” Southern Living April 2012

“Abby Kasonik,” Sarah Sargent, Artnosh December 2010

Feature Article, Cottage Living, November 2005

“World Weary,” review by Laura Parsons, The Hook, Charlottesville, VA, October 2004