Jackie Castellano’s work is mesmerizing. Compelling, eerie, mysterious and intense, her videos require the viewer to concentrate. One has to really look as the work slowly unravels, subtly changing, in such a way that you are unsure if it is really changing at all until you reach a point where there is no doubt that the entire surface has shifted. Within that strange ambiguous landscape, there is subtle movement, the darkness is deeply sensual, painterly, yet painful; reminiscent of Goya’s terrors. Her work inhabits physical and psychological space and the viewer is drawn into projecting their memories both conscious and unconscious onto her work. . . . . .
The beauty of this work is that despite its sophisticated exterior that one could almost dismiss at first glance as clever software, it is actually made of the most simplistic things; glass, light, surface, reflections, truth.
Rosalind Davis.