‘Fantasy’ Juried Group Exhibition at the Arc Gallery in San Francisco
My first exhibition of 2024 is at the Arc Gallery in San Francisco. This is a juried national group exhibition with the theme Fantasy. Art opening and reception will be on Saturday, May 11th, 2024, 7 - 9 PM PST.
My first exhibition of 2024 is at the Arc Gallery. This is a national gallery and online exhibition of the work of sixty-six artists juried by Philip Bewley of Philip Bewley Art Advisors and president of the Visual Arts Council of Vita Brevis. The work of thirty-three artists including mine can be viewed at the Arc Gallery in San Francisco beginning May 11. All artists’ work is viewable in the online catalog (see below).
“Fantasy is grounded in our ancient oral traditions and mythologies and in the history of art to the present day. The exhibition, Fantasy, at Arc Studios, is a seminal contemporary exploration of the subject with extraordinary visual depictions by contemporary artists in an expansive breadth of media: painting and drawing, collage and mixed media, photography, sculpture, and more…”
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th streets)
San Francisco, California 94103
EXHIBITION: May 11 – June 8, 2024
Fantasy Opening Reception: Saturday, May 11 7 -9 PM. I look forward to seeing you there.
I’ll participate in the Fantasy ARTISTS TALKS online via Zoom on Wednesday, May 29, 6 - 7 PM (link to be announced)
The Fantasy exhibition catalog with all artworks of sixty-six exhibiting artists is viewable as a Publuu Flipbook, which is also available in print for purchase on Amazon. My gallery entry The Witch (Star Jasmine) appears on page 19.
‘Cycles’ Juried Group Exhibition at The Pearl Works in Monterey
This juried exhibition sponsored by Emerging Artists Alliance of Monterey and The Pearl Works features the 2D work of local emerging artists from Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. Art Opening will be Friday, May 24th at 6:00 PM.
This juried exhibition sponsored by Emerging Artists Alliance of Monterey and The Pearl Works features the two-dimensional artwork of local emerging artists from Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz Counties. The event is free and open to the public.
Theme: Cycles explores the complete and continuous processes that shape life. This interdisciplinary selection of visual art will create a conversation about the patterns and sequences that dictate the rhythm of change.
Sex In the City: Rice Weevils is my entry to this exhibit.
Where? The Pearl Works
288 Pearl Street
Monterey, California 93940
When? Art Opening will be Friday, May 24th at 6:00 PM.
This exhibition is on display at the Pearl Works from March 11 to September 27, 2024. Viewers and patrons of the arts will have opportunities to experience and purchase these original works.
'Ourselves We Sing' Juried Art Exhibit at Pacific Grove Public Library
Two of my works are among those selected for Pacific Grove Public Library exhibit OURSELVES WE SING: A call and response with Walt Whitman and our understanding of our American Democracy beginning 10/6/2023, juried by Christine Crozier, PGPL Library Curator. Closing reception Friday, January 5, 2024 5:30pm-7:00pm.
The exhibit is titled OURSELVES WE SING: A call and response with Walt Whitman and our understanding of our American Democracy. Two of my provocative works - 451 Degree Fahrenheit and Pretty In Pink - are among those selected for this Pacific Grove Public Library exhibit, juried by Christine Crozier, PGPL Library Curator.
Where: Pacific Grove Public Library
550 Central Ave, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Steve & Nancy Hauk Gallery
When: The exhibit and series of events runs October 6, 2023 - January 5, 2024.
Opening reception Friday, October 6, 2023 5:30pm-7:00pm.
Closing reception Friday, January 5, 2024 5:30pm-7:00pm.
Sponsored by The Pacific Grove Public Library Friends and Foundation with poetry supported by the Whitney Latham-Lechich Trust.
‘Square the Circle’ at The Cherry
A ‘geometry’ themed group exhibition opens at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts on January 13, 2023. I’ll debut a new work. The artists’ closing reception is on Saturday, February 18, 3-5 pm.
Along with twenty-four artists I’ll debut new work in this themed exhibition exploring geometric forms in art and photography. The event is free and open to the public.
As Above, So Below is my entry to this exhibit.
Where? The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts
Guadalupe and 4th Avenue
Carmel-By-the-Sea, California 93923
When? Friday, January 13 through February 18, 2023
Exhibit closing party for the artists will be on Saturday, February 18 from 3 to 5 PM
Celebrate Black History in America 2023 at the Avery Gallery
Beginning January 9 through March 2 I’ll be participating in the Black History Month group exhibit at the Walter Lee Avery Gallery. The reception is on Friday, February 10.
I’ll be participating in the African American History themed group exhibit at the Walter Lee Avery Gallery with several acrylic and watercolor paintings.
Paintings, photography, historical artifacts and other items celebrating Black History will be on display. Further details to be announced soon. Stay tuned to this location.
Opening date is Monday, January 9, 2023. The exhibit will run through March 3, 2023.
An Artists’ Reception is scheduled for Friday, February 10, 2023 between 7 and 8:30 PM.
The Walter Lee Avery Gallery is located at the City of Seaside City Hall, 440 Harcourt Avenue, Seaside, California 93955.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “Subverting the Dreadful Normal” Solo Art Exhibition 11/4 - 12/15/2022
Visit my first solo exhibition since Covid-19 at the Pacific Grove Art Center, which will feature new paintings and a retrospective of older work.
Cultural Subversive Art An Ab-Normal Outlier From Central Coast Traditions
Pacific Grove Art Center, Annand Gallery
568 Lighthouse Ave, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
(831) 375-2208
pgartcenter.org
Subverting the Dreadful Normal: The Art of Edward M Corpus
November 4-December 15, 2022
emcanimator@gmail.com
(831) 277-6673
emcanimator.com
A naked toddler sits placid and unperturbed in the midst of writing vipers. A brown-complexioned boy stares at a blonde schoolgirl, his head engulfed in flames. Hermann Göring stands bedecked in a Nazi SS uniform of gaudy cerise outside a cage of Mexican migrants. No matter how bizarre, whimsical, grotesque or beautiful Edward M Corpus’ images may seem to the viewer, contemporary issues are at the heart of his visual allegories and metaphors.
Eighteen of Corpus’ disquieting fine art and graphic works will be on view during his solo exhibition at the Pacific Grove Art Center. These artworks will hang in PGAC’s Nadine Annand Gallery between Friday, November 4th and December 15, 2022. A reception for the artist is scheduled for November 4th between 7 and 9 PM.
The Central Coast of California boasts a long tradition of artist communities inspired by its scenic beauty. Edward M. Corpus’ artwork stands as an outlier. If the occasional landscape or seascape finds its way onto his canvases, it’s only as a backdrop to flying saucers, supernatural beings or a burning Chinese fishing village.
Corpus refers to his art as cultural subversive, expressing concepts congruent with an evolving ethos of social justice and inclusion. He aims to subvert through visual art what he considers the dreadful normal, the desensitized and passive acceptance by people to social injustice.
Working primarily in traditional wet and dry media, his work combines images with the written word to challenge viewers’ assumptions of what is “real”. He draws on the imagery of mythical archetypes, mystical traditions, dreams, altered states and personal experience to cast light on contemporary issues. Influenced by early Dada, Surrealism and magical realism in art and literature, he seeks to inspire viewers to explore through art the hidden truths of the subconscious and unconscious mind, and to reject capitalist notions of normality in a culture that accepts as normal the detritus of wealth and power inequality.
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