Cosmic Gardens
2007

-Christine Kennedy, NYARTS article

Within this framework, the legacy of forms that shape our cultural life continue to speak, but Cassel’s take on this history is invariably inquisitive. The emphasis is on process and transformation. These new works testify to Cassel’s willingness to take risks both personally and artistically; she has moved beyond the controlled meditation on the metaphysical underpinnings of self-definition that characterized her earlier work, her “boxes” of a bound subjectivity that bounced us – the viewer-- back and forth within a represented binarism of interior/exterior space.