Art
EXHIBITIONS
Common as Mud
Common as Mud, my MFA Thesis Exhibition, comprises a series of free standing and wall mounted sculptures. Similar to cairns, the works are memorials or monuments to labor, gender, and place. Salvaged bricks and wool dyed with plants form precarious piles that teeter between being and becoming.
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
June 27–July 18, 2025
From the Exhibition essay, What a Time to be Alive, by Jason N. Le
“For Cassie Tompkins, careful yet curiously vitalistic arrangements of highly contrasting materials and textures—weathered and chipped brick cradled by stacked sheets of attentively dyed wool—intersect on an aesthetic meditation and destabilizing critiques of power and value within her employment of assemblage. After all, such is the nature of assemblage as a theoretical structure, as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari would suggest: an emphasis on constantly shifting and re-arranging elements contingent upon a myriad of circumstances that create new, whole entities with entirely new functions.”
Photography by Mario Gallucci Photo