Metropolitan

Metropolitan explores what happens to us in the city — and what we do to it without realising. Bodies in movement, crowds, rhythms that accelerate and collide. Colours, lights, shadows — the city as a field of fragmented perceptions, where vitality and disorientation coexist. The city is not a backdrop: it is a living organism that transforms those who inhabit it, and is transformed in return. The energy generated in these encounters can become isolation or connection, fear or freedom. Fragments of colour that meet, transform, and become something more — without disappearing. No single figure tells the whole story. The whole story is in the relation between them. An invitation to enter the work, rather than decode it

Pixelated urban light scene in New York from the painting “Light Pulse,” showing fragmented colors, city buildings, cars and pedestrians.

Light Pulse

2025, Oil on canvas, 100×60 cm

Through the Flow

2025, Oil on canvas, 100 x 60 cm

Through the Flow – urban oil painting by Assunta Cassa, featuring a woman in motion through a metropolitan crowd, painted with palette knife in a fragmented, expressive style.
Night cityscape painting of a New York street with glowing buildings and reflections, capturing the pulse of a sleepless metropolis.

Metropolitan Mirage

2024, Oil on canvas, 180 x 100 cm

Private collection, Italy

Urban connections

2024, Oil on canvas, 100 x 60 cm

Dynamic urban street scene with people walking and interacting, captured in a fragmented composition with bold accents of Payne’s grey.
Oil painting of a stylish woman in a red dress and wide hat walking through a sunlit urban street.

Urban elegance

2023, Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm

Light in the rain

2022, Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm

Private collection, Seattle US

Woman in red walking with umbrella in rainy city street, urban reflection style
Oil painting on canvas titled Jump into Life, measuring 80x120 cm. The artwork features a dynamic female figure in a red dress, leaping over a vibrant cityscape illuminated by warm hues of orange, red, and yellow. The fragmented, pixelated effect blends the urban skyline with the motion of the figure, creating a fusion of movement and architectural depth. The contrast between the fiery buildings and the cool blue sky enhances the sense of energy and freedom.

Jump into life

2022, Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm

Joyful life colours Milan

2021, Oil on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

Private collection, Germany

Urban oil painting of a woman in red walking away, reflected on a wet city pavement with vibrant light and color.
Oil painting of a woman in a red dress on a street corner, caught in an urban moment under vivid lights and colors.

L'attesa

2021, Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm

Private collection, The Netherlands

Dancity

2020, Oil on canvas, 160 x 70 cm

Private collection, Germany

Vibrant cityscape painting with a dancing woman silhouetted against the glowing skyline, between sunset and night.
Oil painting of a contemplative woman sitting on a skyscraper ledge, overlooking a vibrant night cityscape in pink and purple hues.

Heartcity

2019, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm

Infinicity

2019, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm

Expressive painting of a woman overlooking the city from above, immersed in a mosaic of urban lights and emotions.
Woman sitting and contemplating an urban sunset, pixelated oil painting in vibrant tones

Dreamcity

2019, Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm

Private collection, United States