Corydon Cowansage’s work explores both the psychology of space and the relationship between abstraction, architecture, biomorphic forms and the body itself. The artist uses geometry and vibrant color to manipulate light and shadow, distorting our perceptions of physical space—while reconstructing the viewer’s point of access to the painting. Cowansage’s meditative compositions reflect on the speed of the world and feature invented forms that are simultaneously recognizable and slightly removed from reality.

BIO:

Corydon Cowansage was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1985. The artist received an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011, and a BFA in Studio Art from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Solo exhibitions of the artist’s work have taken place at: CHART in New York City (2021); Koki Arts in Tokyo, Japan (2019); Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia (2019); 17 Essex in New York City (2016); and Deli Projects, with Austin Lee, in Basel, Switzerland (2016).

Group exhibitions that shown the artist’s work include: Desire and Anxiety at G/ART/EN in Como, Italy (2021); Highlight at Hollis Taggart in New York City (2018); RE_ARRANGE at Juxtapoz Projects at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey (2018); When Geometry Smiles at Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York (2018); and The Last Brucennial at the Bruce High Quality Foundation in New York City (2014); among many others.

Cowansage lives and works in New York City.