Embracing Paradox: Paintings by Carey Corea

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Carey Corea earned a BFA from RIT College of Art and Design in 1969. He enrolled with the vision of becoming a painter. At the conclusion of his junior year, Corea embarked on a career in commercial art. Along with two fellow students, he formed a design agency while still attending college. After decades of serving the design and promotional needs of local and national businesses, Corea once again turned his attention to drawing and painting.

This exhibition features Corea’s most recent work along with paintings from the last decade. The paintings have been painted with encaustic medium. Invented by the Greeks, it is one of the most ancient paints known to mankind. Encaustic paint is created with a beeswax binder, pigments and tree sap that acts as a hardener.

The paint is applied to an absorbent surface, usually a wood panel. During the painting process, the medium is kept in a molten state on a heated palette and must be rapidly applied. Each brush stroke of paint requires “fusing” which is a process of slightly re-melting the wax to ensure adherence to the layer underneath.

“I believe it is the artist’s responsibility to explore the interplay of both the inner and outer realities, the visible and the invisible, the realms of the material and of the spiritual. This paradoxical journey has led me to adopt an outward orientation that seeks to enrich the beholder. It is the intention of my work to act more like a portal to new worlds rather than a painting with just aesthetic virtues. I believe that the composition of the diverse elements of any form of art, when mirroring the order of existence, affects the viewer’s heart and spirit in dramatic ways. When successful, such a work has the potential to elevate the soul, to be the source of comfort and tranquility for troubled souls, and to possibly stimulate reflection upon the mysteries of life. When art operates on this plane it becomes eternal.” - Carey Corea

All works available for purchase via the Shop One website.

an abstract, textural painting with a midpoint horizon line with a grey top and white bottom.

Source

an abstract, textural painting with a midpoint horizon line with a series of circles pierced through to a colorful sub straight on the top half and painterly mix of light blue and white on the bottom.

Angels in the Mist No.1

an abstract, textural painting with a turquoise squeeze at the center with a colorful, painterly frame of color of oranges, reds and blues around it.

Eternity's Gate

an abstract, textural painting with a painterly blending of grey, reds, blues and greens highlighted with scratched symbols and small squares and a prominent orange bowl shape at the bottom edge.

Four

an abstract, textural painting with a dark, mysterious mottled green surface detailed with a grid of dimensional dots placed in a grid pattern - all the same color as the background except two in the center that are bright yellow.

Twins No.7

an abstract, textural painting with a midpoint horizon line with a bright yellow top accentuated with a red bowl shape and a dark red, green and orange bottom half.

Wagon of Heaven

an abstract, textural painting with a midpoint horizon line with a navy blue top and orange bottom.

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