April 21 - May 12

Smile, It is Good for Your Complexion:
Drawings on Photographs and Cast Objects by Andrea Corson

Dartmouth in June, 2016, acrylic on photograph, 4 x 4 3/4"		 Andrea Corson’s work is strangely playful (or playfully strange). She utilizes a vast personal collection of tiny treasures: cereal box prizes, vintage shank buttons, gumball machine doodads, and all kinds of plastic things that most of us throw away. Corson will cast almost anything in metal. Some of it becomes jewelry, the rest is processed back into her studio where they continue to be arranged and rearranged. They make their way into piles, onto shelves and sometimes get conjoined with other trinkets. The arrangements are curious, provocative and silly; her jewelry is much the same. Her surreptitious photographic work has been ongoing, and arrives by a similar process—jaunty modifications and revisions to existing relics, in this case photographs either found or captured.
Corson lives and works in Astoria, New York. She has a MFA in sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has shown her work extensively.

“I am inspired by my past and my present. If it is curious to me, I take a picture. In my photographs I look for lines, shapes, relationships, and values. I utilize only materials that I have in my home studio, such as paints, pencils, pens, markers, and mixed media, to block out, to bring forth, to change and to enhance what I see. The original photographs and the new images hold memories and stories of places, and of expressions and aspirations.”
 
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