Aleka Corwin - "Just Below the Surface"
Artwork Title, Year: Just below the Surface
Medium: Mixed Media Collage: Cyanotype, liquid watercolor, coffee filters, foamcore
Dimensions as Exhibited: 18 x 6 inches
Price: $600
Artist Bio: Aleka Corwin creates art from materials around her. She attended High School of Music and Art in New York, graduated Sarah Lawrence College majoring in Painting and Folklore and Mythology. She studied printmaking in Paris, and taught silk screening as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa. She received her M.A. in Feminist Art Education from Goddard College while studying with artist Judy Chicago at the Feminist Studio Workshop, Los Angeles. She worked for fifteen years as a set decorator for film and television. She worked as a mask/puppet/prop/set maker for theatrical productions around the world. She currently teaches art to adults and children, writes poetry, makes masks, drawings, sculptures, and collages, takes photos, and creates dioramas. During the Covid19 pandemic she made a series of paper mâché masks entitled “Crazy Covid Clown Masks,” which have been exhibited online, in print, and in galleries around Los Angeles.
Artist Statement: I am an eco-artist. I utilize recycled and found materials to create my work: masks, dioramas, sculpture, artist’s books, drawings, collages, and prints. I create with paper maché, playdough, paper, pressed cardboard cartons, found objects, fabric, toys, buttons, ceramic,and packing materials .My artistic practice utilizes mythology, dream imagery, humor, and whimsy. I am influenced by world folk art and artists Red Grooms, Robert Rauschenberg and Betye Saar. I am inspired by Latin American masks, primitive Mid-Century American tourist art, and children’s drawings. My goal is to capture the innocence of childhood, fantasies, folklore, and the wit of Dada. I am always in search of objects, craft materials, photos, and found text to tell my stories of imaginary worlds, dreams, and imagery from our collective unconscious. My goal is to create intimate fragments of time, creatures and places to engage the imagination of my viewers.
Artwork Title, Year: Just below the Surface
Medium: Mixed Media Collage: Cyanotype, liquid watercolor, coffee filters, foamcore
Dimensions as Exhibited: 18 x 6 inches
Price: $600
Artist Bio: Aleka Corwin creates art from materials around her. She attended High School of Music and Art in New York, graduated Sarah Lawrence College majoring in Painting and Folklore and Mythology. She studied printmaking in Paris, and taught silk screening as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa. She received her M.A. in Feminist Art Education from Goddard College while studying with artist Judy Chicago at the Feminist Studio Workshop, Los Angeles. She worked for fifteen years as a set decorator for film and television. She worked as a mask/puppet/prop/set maker for theatrical productions around the world. She currently teaches art to adults and children, writes poetry, makes masks, drawings, sculptures, and collages, takes photos, and creates dioramas. During the Covid19 pandemic she made a series of paper mâché masks entitled “Crazy Covid Clown Masks,” which have been exhibited online, in print, and in galleries around Los Angeles.
Artist Statement: I am an eco-artist. I utilize recycled and found materials to create my work: masks, dioramas, sculpture, artist’s books, drawings, collages, and prints. I create with paper maché, playdough, paper, pressed cardboard cartons, found objects, fabric, toys, buttons, ceramic,and packing materials .My artistic practice utilizes mythology, dream imagery, humor, and whimsy. I am influenced by world folk art and artists Red Grooms, Robert Rauschenberg and Betye Saar. I am inspired by Latin American masks, primitive Mid-Century American tourist art, and children’s drawings. My goal is to capture the innocence of childhood, fantasies, folklore, and the wit of Dada. I am always in search of objects, craft materials, photos, and found text to tell my stories of imaginary worlds, dreams, and imagery from our collective unconscious. My goal is to create intimate fragments of time, creatures and places to engage the imagination of my viewers.
Artwork Title, Year: Just below the Surface
Medium: Mixed Media Collage: Cyanotype, liquid watercolor, coffee filters, foamcore
Dimensions as Exhibited: 18 x 6 inches
Price: $600
Artist Bio: Aleka Corwin creates art from materials around her. She attended High School of Music and Art in New York, graduated Sarah Lawrence College majoring in Painting and Folklore and Mythology. She studied printmaking in Paris, and taught silk screening as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo, West Africa. She received her M.A. in Feminist Art Education from Goddard College while studying with artist Judy Chicago at the Feminist Studio Workshop, Los Angeles. She worked for fifteen years as a set decorator for film and television. She worked as a mask/puppet/prop/set maker for theatrical productions around the world. She currently teaches art to adults and children, writes poetry, makes masks, drawings, sculptures, and collages, takes photos, and creates dioramas. During the Covid19 pandemic she made a series of paper mâché masks entitled “Crazy Covid Clown Masks,” which have been exhibited online, in print, and in galleries around Los Angeles.
Artist Statement: I am an eco-artist. I utilize recycled and found materials to create my work: masks, dioramas, sculpture, artist’s books, drawings, collages, and prints. I create with paper maché, playdough, paper, pressed cardboard cartons, found objects, fabric, toys, buttons, ceramic,and packing materials .My artistic practice utilizes mythology, dream imagery, humor, and whimsy. I am influenced by world folk art and artists Red Grooms, Robert Rauschenberg and Betye Saar. I am inspired by Latin American masks, primitive Mid-Century American tourist art, and children’s drawings. My goal is to capture the innocence of childhood, fantasies, folklore, and the wit of Dada. I am always in search of objects, craft materials, photos, and found text to tell my stories of imaginary worlds, dreams, and imagery from our collective unconscious. My goal is to create intimate fragments of time, creatures and places to engage the imagination of my viewers.