Robert J. Casella
Digital Artist, Photographer, Writer
Immerse yourself in the visual imagery of Robert Casella, where anti-heroes roam surreal landscapes and satirical humor comes alive. Sample his work and discover the unique narratives that challenge the boundaries of conventional visual storytelling. His art is alive with flawed, multi-dimensional characters and immersive other worldly landscapes. Casella invites viewers to enter his world of collage, revealing both its beauty and chaos, blurring the boundaries between the sacred and profane.
Neighbors in Nearby Space gathers images in which history, memory, popular culture, and invention collide.
Robert Casella builds strange, highly composed worlds from fragments that seem both familiar and displaced. Figures, objects, and symbols cross time and context, creating scenes that are seductive, unsettling, comic, and difficult to fully explain.
The work occupies the uncertain territory between recognition and dream—where images lose their fixed meanings and begin to speak to one another in unexpected ways.
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Galleries, Photo books,
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About
Robert Casella is an artist creating unique and experimental digital collage images exploring the beauty in the absurd, societal collapse, identity, trauma, and the grotesque His art explores surreal and often ludicrous juxtaposition. His work is often a humorous commentary on the American fantasy created by Madison Avenue and the real life, gritty, and corporeal conditions in the world. His style blends hallucinatory exteriors with biting satirical humor and structural innovation.
Robert is a documentary photographer, often capturing the shot that most people would overlook as mundane, where Casella sees beauty.
Robert Casella’s work has been published in the journals Fiction International, Exquisite Corpse, ZYZZYVA, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Another Chicago Magazine, Cream City Review, Writer’s Block Magazine.
Digital Art and
Photography
digital portfolio
CITIZEN: 1989–2022 traces more than three decades of public life through Robert Casella’s street photographs.
Made in the flow of everyday life, the pictures are alert to gesture, expression, coincidence, and the small dramas that unfold without announcement. Strangers pass, wait, watch, perform, retreat, and briefly reveal themselves to the camera.
Taken together, the photographs form a portrait not of a single place or generation, but of social life itself—unplanned, contradictory, comic, lonely, and continually in motion.
