Carmela Casuccio
Carmela Casuccio is a Canadian artist who has exhibited her work widely in the Toronto area and in selected galleries in the United States and Europe. Her paintings can be found in galleries and private and corporate collections internationally.
www.carmelacasuccio.com | @carmelacasuccio_art | carmela@carmelacasuccio.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am an intuitive painter and work without preconceived ideas and let the images emerge in layers to tell their stories My paintings manifest a sense of place that are views into time and space. Imagined landscapes, disjointed doors, windows, and barely seen figures hold shadow images of past lives, juxtaposing their mysteries and memories with the present. Viewers see a place they never imagined yet find some part of themselves there.
About
Carmela Casuccio was born in the United States, but has lived most of her life in Canada. Over the years, she has studied with many teachers, but is mainly a self-taught experimental abstract artist. Her influences range from the chiaroscuro techniques of Rembrandt and the late work of J.M.W. Turner to the American Abstract Expressionists. Carmela’s goal has always been to create works of art that are original and true to her inner vision. She has successfully created a body of work that shows a world of her own making.
Acrylic is her favoured medium and her paintings range from intricately designed smooth canvases to heavily textured and 3 dimensional sculptural paintings with layered watercolour paper on canvas or board. Carmela’s subject matter includes abstract cities explored intimately or from a distance. Her vibrant land and seascapes are unique visions of the world as experienced through her travels and imagination. Her non-objective works are mystery places to discover. Carmela’s paintings always cause the viewer to pause and reflect on the image, feeling it is familiar although it exists nowhere else. Collectors of her work often contact her years after their purchase to tell her of the joy they feel every time they look at her painting. It gives her much satisfaction to know that the joy she felt in creating her work is still being communicated.
Carmela has exhibited her work widely in Toronto galleries and juried art shows and also in selected galleries in the United States and Europe. Her paintings can be found in private and corporate collections internationally.
Carmela’s work is equally at home in both corporate and residential settings, from Board Rooms to bedrooms. She sells from her website, accepts commissions and is happy to work with designers and home stagers.
Contact Carmela at carmela@carmelacasuccio.com
Instagram: @carmelacasuccio_art
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SELECTED SHOWS AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Thornhill Red Door Gallery Art Show & Sale
“Spring into Colour” Heintzman House
ORIGIN, Avant Garde Gallery, Toronto
Spring Enchantment, MGA
2025 Small is Beautiful, McKay Art Centre, Unionville
Member Show Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
Art Guild of Scarborough Fall Juried Show
Autumn Reflections MGA
Espresso 21 Gallery Café
Discover Your Inner Artist, Mill Pond Gallery
ITALICIZED Red Rose Gallery, Aurora
Thornhill Red Door Gallery
VIEWPOINTS 2025 Boynton House Gallery
RHGA Juried Spring Show
6x6 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
2024 IMPACT 2024 Neilson Park Creative Centre
Espresso 21 Gallery and Café
RHGA Juried Spring Show
6x6 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
VIEWPOINTS 2024 MGA juried show McKay Art Centre
Member Show Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
Small is Beautiful McKay Art Centre
2023 Art Shop Project
Wychwood Barns Art Market
Espresso 21 Gallery and Cafe
“Spring into Colour” Heintzman House
6x6 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
Celebrate Spring – MGA
RHGA Juried Spring Show
VIEWPOINTS 2023 MGA juried show McKay Art Centre
Small is Beautiful McKay Art Centre
2022 PERCEPTIONS – McKay Art Centre
VIEWPOINTS 2022 MGA juried show McKay Art Centre
“Spring into Colour” Heintzman House
Project Sunflower - MGA
2022 RHGA Juried Spring Show
6x6 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
2021 Toronto Markham Marriott
MGA @ 40
“Viewpoints 2021 MGA Juried Show”
6x6 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, USA
“Windows Open 2021” MGA Juried Show
“Passion” Richmond Hill Group of Artists
“Artists’ Choice” Markham Group of Artists
2020 RHGA Group Show-Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts
“The Show That Never Was”, “Windows Open 2020”,
“Small is Beautiful” Markham Group of Artists
2019. “An Affair with the Arts”, Markham Arts Council Gala , Markham
Bayview Art Tour, Toronto
Heintzman House 14th Annual Art Show, Thornhill
Richmond Hill Cultural Summit,
2018. Anonymous Art Show, Art Square Gallery, Toronto
2017 “Seen from Within: Entering the City” (Solo), Yellow House Gallery
“Canada 150”, Yellow House Gallery, Toronto
2016 “Land & City”, “Summer-scapes”, Arta Gallery, Toronto
“Summer Residents Exhibition”, Arta Gallery, Toronto
“Urban Icons”, Steam Whistle Gallery, Toronto - 2 person show
“Timeless Collision”, Yellow House Gallery, Toronto - 2 person show
“Celebrating the Arts” Gilda’s Club Auction, Toronto