Cassandra Saulter creates multilayered, linguistic paintings. She weaves together images and words, natural and constructed worlds, dream and waking states. Her technique combines drawing, hand stitching, found text, fabric, and paper on canvas—a rush of language, sensation, and symbol emanating from the hand of an unseen subject.

Born and raised in New York, the daughter of artists, Saulter notes that she's "never been without a sketchbook." Her formal studies took her from the Kansas City Art Institute and the Chicago Art Institute to the Art Students League in New York City. In between, a four-year stay in the north of Italy influenced her work in a way the classroom never could. Since establishing herself as a working artist in New York City in the 1970s, Saulter has shown her work in numerous galleries. Among her most recent exhibitions was an outdoor installation on Saunders Farm in Garrison, New York, part of a group show curated by Collaborative Concepts Gallery. Extending from the limbs of a tree atop one of the farm's rolling hills, Nest (2007) transformed the weaving found in her slayered paintings into a three-dimensional object woven from spandex and leaves.

Cassandra works independently and on commission from her studio in Beacon, New York.