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About the Gallery
Corkin Gallery presents the work of international contemporary artists in its five exhibition spaces. Our program is defined by a concern for contemporary issues crossing the boundaries of all media. Environmental issues run through the work of veteran conceptualist Iain Baxter&, who creates provocative installations and was a pioneer of conceptual photography, and Thaddeus Holownia, who comes from a strong photographic tradition. Their interest in both the environment and sense of place are shared by William Christenberry, who produces serial photography of southern architecture over long periods of time. Similarly, Barbara Astman, in her recent digital photography, addresses the role of the accumulation of images in our media-obsessed culture. Several of our artists work across different media, including Ramón Serrano, who paints stark images of Havana architecture after photographs, questioning the veracity of information and the double-life of contemporary Cubans under Castro, and Marc Séguin, whose large-scale contemporary history paintings based on news images of plane crashes verge on abstraction. Painters David Urban and François Xavier Saint-Pierre work between abstraction and landscape, while Frank Mädler’s large-scale photographs seem to confront painterly tradition. Issues of identity run through the photography and video installations of artists Lori Newdick, Anastasia Khoroshilova and Sharon Switzer. The gallery maintains a dynamic exhibition program and participates in international art fairs. In addition to our contemporary program, the gallery presents photography from both the 19th and 20th centuries which demonstrates the ongoing dialogue between contemporary artists and their historical precedents. |