Following is an online published review by Joseph Wolin from New York Time Out, March 19, 2009: http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/art/32287/jacob-kassay



In his promising debut, Jacob Kassay paints canvases in broad horizontal strokes of color before electroplating them in silver. The result: Specular works that are hung on the walls or, in one instance, stacked on a low pedestal like oversized ingots to create a strange hybrid of monochrome painting and metallic sculpture.

The plating process scorches unpainted canvas, so the edges of these works are often blackened. In a few cases, burn marks extend onto the shiny faces of the panels, fading into golden, tarnish-like smears. Here and...