https://elizabethcorkery.com Elizabeth Corkery Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:39:04 +0000 https://elizabethcorkery.com en https://elizabethcorkery.com/Wallflowers Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:39:04 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/Wallflowers Frye Art MuseumFebruary 7- May 17, 2026More Information <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/237e1d4dcf40a7a875988df9686356a4ee929a6b8a1e71612203c1b7d66dbd0f/Frye-20260209-106.jpg" data-mid="245057496" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/237e1d4dcf40a7a875988df9686356a4ee929a6b8a1e71612203c1b7d66dbd0f/Frye-20260209-106.jpg" /><img width="2250" height="3000" width_o="2250" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c1d6ce34a7aa356da094b99bb4c80b05e9cf29ba97d1b25fe0d73a12ab4dfea3/Frye-20260209-133.jpg" data-mid="245057497" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c1d6ce34a7aa356da094b99bb4c80b05e9cf29ba97d1b25fe0d73a12ab4dfea3/Frye-20260209-133.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35c4a307c5804f27efd8e7d215d65500e4e6da65a2021a14fd39e7cc157ef6c8/Frye-20260209-175.jpg" data-mid="245057500" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35c4a307c5804f27efd8e7d215d65500e4e6da65a2021a14fd39e7cc157ef6c8/Frye-20260209-175.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f63cbb2a13db1c3d17497df239c1465de604d7fca3895af367f8411f101e9e76/Frye-20260209-170.jpg" data-mid="245057499" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f63cbb2a13db1c3d17497df239c1465de604d7fca3895af367f8411f101e9e76/Frye-20260209-170.jpg" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e01f67e7330ecdd2e988959db6be77f84cf0c9b77deef2ea81769f1ef1f5983/Frye-20260209-162.jpg" data-mid="245057498" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e01f67e7330ecdd2e988959db6be77f84cf0c9b77deef2ea81769f1ef1f5983/Frye-20260209-162.jpg" /> Images: Installation view of Wallflowers. Frye Art Museum, Seattle, February 7, 2026–May 17, 2026. Photo:&nbsp;Jueqian&nbsp;Fang https://elizabethcorkery.com/Well-Ripened-Seeds Mon, 20 May 2024 18:52:01 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/Well-Ripened-Seeds Rivalry Projects April 26 - June 14, 2024 Press Release. <img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8cb0a2ea437645fd436ec59f98b6f32e68bf6a2a114c9cef5c55075de106e3b/CorkeryInstall01_6762_web-1.jpg" data-mid="211289295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8cb0a2ea437645fd436ec59f98b6f32e68bf6a2a114c9cef5c55075de106e3b/CorkeryInstall01_6762_web-1.jpg" /><img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42254a637bd1e59c2f02c521432699dbb97b5afcfb4bab440b3db7af96d113fd/CorkeryInstall03_6786_v3.jpg" data-mid="211289298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42254a637bd1e59c2f02c521432699dbb97b5afcfb4bab440b3db7af96d113fd/CorkeryInstall03_6786_v3.jpg" /><img 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/934ee7f38c438a5cbb5dff697829269c06a81caa306bcd6c6a40da457d4817ca/ElC003_6721_web_v2-1.jpg" data-mid="211289306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/934ee7f38c438a5cbb5dff697829269c06a81caa306bcd6c6a40da457d4817ca/ElC003_6721_web_v2-1.jpg" /> Images: Ryan Arthurs, Rivalry Projects https://elizabethcorkery.com/Glenrowan-Rocks Wed, 25 Aug 2021 23:02:05 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/Glenrowan-Rocks Kohler Arts/Industry ResidencyMay 24 - August 27, 2021 Slip cast porcelain Dimensions variable Image Credits:&nbsp;Kohler Co., courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dafd8c3d9ffd6c0d089dd921ac56e4ba6f5d33f3086f8bba8d369ef0907b9672/aad71451-JPG_3000-pixels-wide--300dpi.jpg" data-mid="117340964" border="0" 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width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20e9c27f80b9bab12ba34559cf65944aa1a245e8bc2201223d2cd18b26889bf8/aad71480-JPG_3000-pixels-wide--300dpi.jpg" data-mid="117340970" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20e9c27f80b9bab12ba34559cf65944aa1a245e8bc2201223d2cd18b26889bf8/aad71480-JPG_3000-pixels-wide--300dpi.jpg" /><img width="1322" height="881" width_o="1322" height_o="881" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/680dd12e2cbc995cde2e03731e0d4524f9e170a882e1c03d2e46bc0588681e47/Corkery_Kohler_pair_2.gif" data-mid="117342206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/680dd12e2cbc995cde2e03731e0d4524f9e170a882e1c03d2e46bc0588681e47/Corkery_Kohler_pair_2.gif" /><img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/653036c12400ad1ab3a86785d46991bcd8dcbbd256d559017edc8c96a0c8d01e/aad71472-JPG_3000-pixels-wide--300dpi.jpg" data-mid="117340971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/653036c12400ad1ab3a86785d46991bcd8dcbbd256d559017edc8c96a0c8d01e/aad71472-JPG_3000-pixels-wide--300dpi.jpg" /> https://elizabethcorkery.com/Fanfare Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:23:29 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/Fanfare Ildiko Butler Gallery | Fordham UniversityJanuary 23 - March 13, 2020 Curated by Amie Cunat – Featuring work by: Beverly Acha, Elizabeth Corkery, Gail Fitzgerald, Justine Hill, Mary Lum, Joiri Minaya, Rebecca Shore, Karen Tepaz Press Release. <img width="1800" height="1171" width_o="1800" height_o="1171" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78b2dacb44044718aff0ff589c809c96914d7f1058a3f0b32beef292d10067c8/EDIT__MG_0320_W.jpg" data-mid="60739798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78b2dacb44044718aff0ff589c809c96914d7f1058a3f0b32beef292d10067c8/EDIT__MG_0320_W.jpg" />Elizabeth Corkery,&nbsp;Nuages, 2020. Inkjet print on paper. <img width="1800" height="1075" width_o="1800" height_o="1075" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ce7afe38c98355ae91ed1aab8c39c29dd39411b6f07569932c64999d7464dab/EDIT__MG_0455_W.jpg" data-mid="60739801" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ce7afe38c98355ae91ed1aab8c39c29dd39411b6f07569932c64999d7464dab/EDIT__MG_0455_W.jpg" />Installation view:&nbsp;Fanfare, 2020. Featuring wallcovering design by Elizabeth Corkery. <img width="1800" height="1152" width_o="1800" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/738f3d262b7f19d21c5b1273a377aab22bd079337c9aace431284f33937c0083/EDIT__MG_0303_W.jpg" data-mid="60739794" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/738f3d262b7f19d21c5b1273a377aab22bd079337c9aace431284f33937c0083/EDIT__MG_0303_W.jpg" />Installation view: Fanfare, 2020. Featuring wallcovering design by Elizabeth Corkery. <img width="1800" height="1120" width_o="1800" height_o="1120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec8f5df2bd8c10f0c6cc28490e01d53c0ebe19517d80a4befe55826a20d6a477/EDIT_MG_0355_W.jpg" data-mid="60739808" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec8f5df2bd8c10f0c6cc28490e01d53c0ebe19517d80a4befe55826a20d6a477/EDIT_MG_0355_W.jpg" />Installation view: Fanfare, 2020. Featuring wallcovering design by Elizabeth Corkery. <img width="1204" height="1800" width_o="1204" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/61d1a9672546446ef0b989667767d204a193eb5434545a327b82b2352eb263cf/EDIT_MG_0314_W.jpg" data-mid="60739805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/61d1a9672546446ef0b989667767d204a193eb5434545a327b82b2352eb263cf/EDIT_MG_0314_W.jpg" />Elizabeth Corkery, Nuages, 2020. Inkjet print on paper. <img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02bc4fe7e75eb411988b2c040ebab1a18df8ea55c98024f8565981547846756b/EDIT_MG_0328_W.jpg" data-mid="60739806" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02bc4fe7e75eb411988b2c040ebab1a18df8ea55c98024f8565981547846756b/EDIT_MG_0328_W.jpg" />Installation view: Fanfare (left: Gail Fitzgerald, right: Justine Hill), 2020. <img width="1321" height="1800" width_o="1321" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8e66ded70ea1190c02730175fa624c17c5239120ca59562b5bdfdb82283ef354/EDIT_MG_0410_W.jpg" data-mid="60739809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8e66ded70ea1190c02730175fa624c17c5239120ca59562b5bdfdb82283ef354/EDIT_MG_0410_W.jpg" />Installation view: Fanfare (Karen Tepaz), 2020.&nbsp; https://elizabethcorkery.com/On-The-Wall Fri, 17 May 2019 22:53:08 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/On-The-Wall Providence College Galleries (PC–G) May 1 - July 26, 2019 Press Release. 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While such goods might seem like the primary and raw materials of an artist best known for making artworks that flirt with installation and reimagine space, unfolding across walls and floors and uncontained by frame or pedestal, they are merely the means to an end. And that end is ambitious—On the Wall: Elizabeth Corkery consists of a small series of meticulously crafted art objects and a large-scale, multi-component mural applied directly to the walls of PCG’s Reilly Gallery. For an artist like Corkery, the real impetus is a story. One that tells of the coming together of seminal Modernist figures and their ideas, especially those heralded by the Bauhaus, a short-lived German art school. As the layers of this commissioned exhibition showcase, this narrow precinct of art and cultural history changes everything and, in many ways, makes possible the very conditions of art-making in which Corkery created a project at and for Providence College’s campus. Before the telling of that particular story, it’s important to first consider the themes of Corkery’s oeuvre to date. Her work is grounded in readings of the built environment, and with nearly every project, Corkery deconstructs a site, or an image of that site, selecting some aspects of its structural idiosyncrasy or decorative style to examine through reproduction and compositional fragmentation. In doing so, she is as keen to appropriate the minimalist, almost generic, architectural features found in a contemporary art gallery as she is to reproduce the ornate details of a Victorian parlor. As evidenced in the exhibitions Nowhere is There a Garden (2013) and Pieces from Pictures (2017), Corkery often constructs discreet architectural objects, which, thanks to an orderly Modernist aesthetic, serve as both sculptures and functional display units. She also frequently composes playful yet precisely rendered paintings and drawings on paper, depicting fragments of various objects and spaces as a kind of homage to the labor-intensity of traditional techniques. Several previous works incorporate allusions to film and actual employments of silk-screen printmaking, which, unlike Corkery’s hand-drawn and painted works on paper, are unmistakably mechanical. The printed facets of these assemblies, such as the wallpapers and decorative trims found in an early installations like Absolute Monarchy and Marble Baseboard (both 2012), re-create structures from the past whilst reinventing them via subtle references—half-tone dots and blends—to the mechanical reproduction of an image. But far from being a formalist, Corkery is an artist whose work borders on the ethnographic, addressing the social and political structures of environments’ creators and users. By disconnecting symbolic imagery from its original context and formal hierarchy, the signs she presents to the viewer can be visually indexed and more easily deciphered. Presentations that include singular works of mimicry, like the trio of gouache paintings of toy theater curtains and the simplified scale models of Wardian cases in Small Decors (2014), therefore reveal elements of decorative and architectural styles as heavily laden repositories of various ideologies. Corkery’s installation for the annual On the Wall program similarly distills and re-presents her primary source material, which happens to be the story of a significant moment in twentieth-century art history, when the radical idealism of early modern art is first pitted against and then integrated into a range of styles long embraced by the United States’ most prestigious institutions of higher learning. … On the Wall: Elizabeth Corkery is mounted as the first presentation in PCG’s Beyond Bauhaus program, a yearlong series of thematic projects exploring the relationship contemporary artists have with the legacy of the Bauhaus, an early twentieth-century German art school and pedagogy that combined the applied and fine arts and is credited with inspiring the rationale for much of today’s art education. Tracing the Bauhaus lineage from Germany to New England, Corkery looks to the modernization of design training at Harvard’s newly formed Graduate School of Design (GSD), which paved the way for Bauhaus founding director Walter Gropius’ arrival in New England. Of specific interest are the results of the at first amenable and later discordant relationship between Gropius and Joseph Hudnut, the architect and dean of GSD who invited Gropius to serve as the first director of the GSD. Working alongside each other for more than 15 years, these two figures influenced the world of architecture and design in lasting ways, colliding their activities, styles and egos into what could be considered the current state of architecture and its proliferation as an everlasting, cumulative series of social gestures. Corkery’s project for PCG parses and transmutes a few of the visible aspects of this series to create the first solo exhibition of her work in Rhode Island. Appropriately, Corkery’s foundational treatment of the long wall in PCG’s Reilly Gallery begins with a referential nod to the Bauhaus as an actual school (not as some kind of splintered, mutated, multiplying global credo or ‘International Style’), where a generation of Modernists, especially Gropius, sought to train a new generation of artists and designers. Via workshops led by leading masters of form and technique, students in the wall-painting workshop designed and produced murals, reliefs and color schemes to function like architectural elements. The bottom layer of Corkery’s On the Wall mural is correspondingly painted with a simplified formal language—solid colors, basic geometric shapes, perspectival composition with horizon line—that alternately reads as an abstract painting and an architectural site for object display. In many ways, however, the artist transcends this Bauhaus educational tradition, which rigidly oriented itself around a master artist and his notions of ideal palettes and forms. She not only mines a more robust legacy of abstraction but also treats the overlapping narratives of art history as a medium to be manipulated. Conjuring a long trajectory of sources not limited to Non-western pattern painting, abstract photography and the applied arts of traditional women’s work, Corkery’s painting gives due reverence to innovative creations by under-recognized Bauhaus women artists, like the toy furniture designs and painted maquettes of Alma Siedhoff-Buscher and the illusionistic textiles of Otti Berger. The second layer of Corkery’s mural artwork considers two specific gestures initiated by Hudnut during Harvard’s ideological pivot towards Modernist design education. The first was the emptying of the ‘Hall of Casts,’ the school’s repository of Classical art plaster casts and replicas used for teaching. The second was the paring back of the ornamented façade of the university’s Robinson Hall when the building’s photographic likeness was used on GSD letterhead and in other printed collateral. For On the Wall, Corkery screen printed onto organic shapes cut from MDF photographic imagery depicting elements of Classical sculpture and decoration similar to those housed in the ‘Hall of Casts’ and adorning various edifices that, like Robinson Hall, were interspersed throughout Harvard’s mostly Georgian-style campus. With the relief-like biomorphic forms, the artist alludes to Bauhaus-style interventions later instigated by Gropius on Harvard’s campus. In this case, she appropriates the signature forms of Hans Arp, an Alsatian artist who Gropius commissioned to create a site-specific artwork for Harvard’s Graduate Center, the first modernist building on Harvard’s campus. By synthesizing the visual elements of these events along formal and material lines, Corkery shows how this short period, that is the overlapping tenures of Hudnut and Gropius, precedes the complexly layered qualities of today’s visual and architectural landscapes, even those of Providence College’s own eclectically styled campus. On the Wall: Elizabeth Corkery makes obvious an artist’s commitment to research and craft, as well as her longtime interest in dismantling the pervasive hierarchies of visual art practices and movements. Complimentary artworks—presented as fragments designed to both appropriate and function as historical documents or artifacts—underscore the importance of two instances when Hudnut gave visible form to his ideas on modernizing architecture and design curricula. The first was his distribution of photographic imagery featuring Robinson Hall with a streamlined exterior, and the second was his dispensing of most of the building’s Beaux-Arts educational infrastructure through the dramatic alteration of its floorplan. In an ode to the original details of Robinson Hall’s façade, and by extension to the many pre-Modernist structures found on most college campuses and throughout all American cities, Corkery presents pairs of tufted wall tapestries and pen and ink drawings that both memorialize and recontextualize such features. Woven with the easily accessible materials espoused in Bauhaus textile workshops, the tapestries appropriate the brick pattern covering Robinson Hall’s exterior. The drawings illustrate the building’s frontispiece and decorative ornaments, which Hudnut sought to remove (but survives to this day).These mural-adjacent artworks operate similarly to Corkery’s wall reliefs—they are hybrid forms that harken various historical features and evoke multiple sentiments, such as nostalgia for past, hope for the future, or something in between. … While On the Wall: Elizabeth Corkery combines and celebrates the fine and applied arts of a well-studied period of art history, it also reveals the innumerable points at which an artist’s visual sense of the past intersects with their capacity to create something new. The raw materials, whether formal or conceptual, that invigorate such work hold our attention and coax our contemplation on our built environments. They prompt us perpetually observe our surroundings, and to be aware of their origins so that we can better envision what’s to come. And as Corkery shows us, the story of these places we create is actually a process of understanding. Thankfully, that process is inherently generative and never complete. https://elizabethcorkery.com/Pieces-from-Pictures Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:25:53 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/Pieces-from-Pictures Outside, North Adams, MA July 7 - August 18, 2017 Press Release. <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f6b8ffc60c1e621957dca61f337e1bae6b73ad3ec3df636b75a8cf79887577e/IMG_5643.jpg" data-mid="34379682" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f6b8ffc60c1e621957dca61f337e1bae6b73ad3ec3df636b75a8cf79887577e/IMG_5643.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5898c4e5c80a046814ffdf3102df29a8118a23e229aaeeda949d169607e0c002/IMG_5609.jpg" data-mid="34379677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5898c4e5c80a046814ffdf3102df29a8118a23e229aaeeda949d169607e0c002/IMG_5609.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="969" width_o="1440" height_o="969" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1229e4a4f2219ba0fa2d96c79d03df248c0186defb88d6a61ea47028d3ebb33c/IMG_5614.jpg" data-mid="34379678" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1229e4a4f2219ba0fa2d96c79d03df248c0186defb88d6a61ea47028d3ebb33c/IMG_5614.jpg" /> <img width="1116" height="1440" width_o="1116" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a76c18f4190869023ba3914edccf9f1587679e88e2960930de9ee3b8c6601f79/IMG_5674.jpg" data-mid="34379683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a76c18f4190869023ba3914edccf9f1587679e88e2960930de9ee3b8c6601f79/IMG_5674.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4cb6c9942666026f1d05df59766301416611933c9e562fdecb1df6553ae9cca/IMG_5630.jpg" data-mid="34379680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4cb6c9942666026f1d05df59766301416611933c9e562fdecb1df6553ae9cca/IMG_5630.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26b29b6585c052753f59dbd5ac2e3ea22201191ef5f47c6503475ddad248cf45/IMG_5623.jpg" data-mid="34379679" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26b29b6585c052753f59dbd5ac2e3ea22201191ef5f47c6503475ddad248cf45/IMG_5623.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ee4d0efea49a4727fa50c82ab499ba2fdb35793270edffb21e6ca1874964347/IMG_5637.jpg" data-mid="34379681" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ee4d0efea49a4727fa50c82ab499ba2fdb35793270edffb21e6ca1874964347/IMG_5637.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="975" width_o="1440" height_o="975" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1c9f62d68bce9c273053619f050e469a39741e07622473184e9eb1ad49db30d7/IMG_5677.jpg" data-mid="34379684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1c9f62d68bce9c273053619f050e469a39741e07622473184e9eb1ad49db30d7/IMG_5677.jpg" /> <img width="1077" height="1440" width_o="1077" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84572e2e19b21b7cbedf7bc56241e833d1bac3bff33c8b9a2ad5c4f8d53cbd5b/IMG_5683.jpg" data-mid="34379685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84572e2e19b21b7cbedf7bc56241e833d1bac3bff33c8b9a2ad5c4f8d53cbd5b/IMG_5683.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="960" width_o="1440" height_o="960" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce171056c62fbdc252d1c4b3acf81e2eb86654609eba5af63e820edcb4b893fb/IMG_5701.jpg" data-mid="34379687" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce171056c62fbdc252d1c4b3acf81e2eb86654609eba5af63e820edcb4b893fb/IMG_5701.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="961" width_o="1440" height_o="961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c44aa4ac89e1dd37e635625967ed8eda0a7e3861b8f401869376cf05e1eafb0/IMG_5694.jpg" data-mid="34379686" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c44aa4ac89e1dd37e635625967ed8eda0a7e3861b8f401869376cf05e1eafb0/IMG_5694.jpg" /> https://elizabethcorkery.com/Piece-from-Pictures-release Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:23:11 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/Piece-from-Pictures-release Elizabeth Corkery Pieces from Pictures July 7 - August 18, 2017 “What was once a film in a movie theater, then a fragment of broadcast television, is now a kernel of physical representations, a fleeting association of discrete elements…the more the film is distanced in memory, the more the binding effect of the narrative is loosened. The sequence breaks apart. The fragments go adrift and enter into new combinations, more or less transitory, in the eddies of memory: memories of other films, and memories of real events.” - Victor Burgin, The Remembered Film, 2004. Reaktion Books, London, UK. Outside is excited to present an installation of new work by Australian artist Elizabeth Corkery. Pieces from Pictures generates a symbiotic relationship between cinematic sequence and sculptural ensemble, using the gallery as a mechanism for installation to present ideas of duration and simultaneity. The piece builds on Corkery’s collective body of work that has explored the traditional boundaries between prints/architecture, surface/depth, image/matter, while making more explicit the relation between spatial perception, bodily motion and perceived passages of time. Using the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld as her point of visual reference, Corkery has created a new sequence of sculptures, photographs, fabricated pedestal structures and panoramic wall covering. The Great Ziegfeld is a compelling example of how early motion pictures presented the (emerging) film image in (established) theatrical terms. The site, history and even performers of the theatre world were adopted as content and character for many early films. Cinema was directly adapted from live stage shows, using the environment of the theatre as a site for narrative-driven action. Corkery reflects on this tension between theatrical content and cinematic form primarily through her combined use of photography and sculpture; mediums that speak to the past and present. Theatrical, artificial rock formations are presented on a trio of pedestals around the gallery and a series of black and white photographs capture these forms, confusing their origin story and proposing that one representation may predate the other. The sculptures present stills from The Great Ziegfeld; scenes that have been captured from elaborate dance sequences, halting the movement of performers in a perpetual freeze frame. Corkery’s stills are reproduced through the process of silkscreen printing, transforming the image from the vertical “big screen” and physically pulling it through a horizontal stretched silkscreen. Corkery locks these filmic instants in geological form, introducing a comparison between “film time”, “real time” and the expanded passage of geological time. &nbsp; outside 10 Ashland St North Adams, MA 01247 thisisoutside.com @thisisoutside - Open Fri, Sat &amp; Mon 12 - 5pm https://elizabethcorkery.com/The-Newest-Romantics Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:39:01 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/The-Newest-Romantics Newton Art Center, Newton, MA January 20 - March 25, 2017 Curated by Jamilee Lacy Exhibition Statement. <img width="1223" height="963" width_o="1223" height_o="963" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3c35e6a7de66bc7734132e6c812cbd8bf565df6409351104b376546dcf859e0/Eleganter_GardenW_1.jpg" data-mid="34379692" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3c35e6a7de66bc7734132e6c812cbd8bf565df6409351104b376546dcf859e0/Eleganter_GardenW_1.jpg" /> <img width="1249" height="982" width_o="1249" height_o="982" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4809ec5a094c9204da258d5bf8a2dcd5bf99d88f3ca50d3bffb23a0ee8200dd3/Foret_SceneW_2.jpg" data-mid="34379693" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4809ec5a094c9204da258d5bf8a2dcd5bf99d88f3ca50d3bffb23a0ee8200dd3/Foret_SceneW_2.jpg" /> <img width="1222" height="962" width_o="1222" height_o="962" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6979dcd9f726637b176c9eedfaafb2f851844aa2d815aae7a7d63bbc9cf8d94/Garten-VersatzstuckeW_3.jpg" data-mid="34379694" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6979dcd9f726637b176c9eedfaafb2f851844aa2d815aae7a7d63bbc9cf8d94/Garten-VersatzstuckeW_3.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1274" width_o="1920" height_o="1274" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4179a794195a18498bc9e8dd7b01996fa55aee62e09c0567fef5928823a7f675/_IGP9361-copy.jpg" data-mid="34379691" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4179a794195a18498bc9e8dd7b01996fa55aee62e09c0567fef5928823a7f675/_IGP9361-copy.jpg" /> https://elizabethcorkery.com/The-Newest-Romantics-text Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:33:39 +0000 Elizabeth Corkery https://elizabethcorkery.com/The-Newest-Romantics-text January 20 - March 25, 2017 Newton Art Center Curatorial Statement Jamilee Lacy In Romantic art era of the late 18th and 19th centuries, nature-with its uncontrollable power, unpredictability and potential for cataclysmic extremes-offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought. Violent and terrifying images of nature collided with lush visual aesthetics of the Sublime-the quality of nature's incalculable greatness and beauty. The Newest Romantics exhibition intentional casting of these contemporary artists as a new generation dealing with themes original to the Romantic era-scenic vistas and overgrown exotic flora that express the inherent power and beauty of nature and set scenes of the Sublime. But unlike the original Romantics, who primarily produced painting, prose and poetry and who opposed the strictly symmetrical, formal gardens and landscapes held dear by the aristocracy, The Newest Romantics use formal variations of photography in combination with sculpture, video, architecture and site-­specific installation to embrace the tension between nature's chaos and Modernism's angular order. While historical interpretations of nature in art underpin this exhibition's theme, the artists featured also harness the illusive qualities of photography and sleek lines of architectural sculpture in ways that showcase today's cutting-edge photographic processes. Conjuring apt yet contrasting references to both the paintings of John Constable and the Hudson River School, Theresa Ganz and Letha Wilson compactly synthesize harsh landscapes, caves and rock forms with bucolic elements such as intricate vining, starry skies and first snows. Erin Leland and Frank Poor, whose presentations bring the rural South to New England, signal humanity's incapacity to match the consuming terrain. In Leland's What Is Mine Is Yours, Romantic-era-esque figure succumbs to the land; in Poor's Missing House - Forsyth, GA, the eventual absence of rural architecture, and thus human life, is predicated by unruly, overgrown plant life's reclamation of the land. Contrastingly, Heidi Norton's Blackscape and Whitescape photographs and Amy Beecher's massive floor-based photo-sculptures pit human hands-as creative and destructive devices-against opulent florals reminiscent of Dutch still life traditions. Elizabeth Corkery and Jessica Labatte construct paper sculptures of botanical still-lifes and gardens, and then photograph them in conventional studio photography settings that provide opportunities for manipulating lighting and depth. The real, which is already paper-made simulacra, therefore contrasts with its representation and approximates an illusion of a kind of Victorian naturalism that only heightens its artifice. Clement Valla's Untitled (Still Lifes) are flattened imagistic sculptures composed using computerized and three-dimensional picture-making apparatuses borne out of military and satellite map-making machineries. Though materialized as wall map-like tapestries, the artworks warp the traditional pictorial strategies of botanical photography in the realm of Nature Morte. They represent a turn toward science and technology as a means of moving the notion of the artistic Sublime forward. Holistically, The Newest Romantics exhibition demonstrates the lasting thematic, cultural and emotional connections artists cultivate with their environments, whether natural built or something in between. By considering contemporary photography through lenses of nature and an art historical narrative such as Romanticism the exhibition has a particular take on the current state of photography's material presence, ­its status as a cultural material-within art. In most instances, images become objects and objects become images, all entrenched in the liminal spaces between three-dimensional mixed-media constructions and the photographic frame imposed by their camera. In relation to recent trends in contemporary photography especially as it pertains to sculpture and varying degrees of abstraction, and as part of a vast art history of simulacrum-the fabricated likeness, similarity representation or imitation of a person or thing-The Newest Romantics artists position nature as an enduring creative and intellectual inspiration and as the great metaphor for life, death and transformation.