Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) presents Cassandria Blackmore: Khioni Diptych, on view through September 29, 2024 in the museum’s window box gallery - 24 hours a day.

Blackmore’s paintings are reverse painted shattered glass. The shattering creates a vortex quality to the surface of the painting that draws the viewer in. At times one is seeing the painting through the transparent surface while later one might see the reflection of the environment around it thus obscuring the artist's physical mark. In the artist’s own words: “It's the essence of breaking down an image and restoring it to another version of itself that intrigues me.”

Cassandria lives and works in Santa Barbara, CA. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum, Racine Museum of Art, Fitchburg Art Museum, Oakland Museum, Portland Art Museum, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and The Imagine Museum. She is a recipient of the Hauberg Fellowship for painting on glass. Cassandria Blackmore is a Trustee on the Board of The Pilchuck Glass School founded by Dale Chihuly.