Corydon Cowansage’s disembodied forms evoke a sense of discomfort, stimulation, buoyancy, the maternal, and the sublime. Her fibrous shapes are suspended within the frame, forming a harnessed restraint that interacts with the wavy and bent bodies, as they come to a sharp, tantalizing point. There is a moment of pain, both uncomfortable and awkward, as plump, fleshy forms contort themselves into configurations or stretch out to just barely graze each other’s tingling tips. These articulations of structures sometimes find themselves duplicated, whether by a conscious decision or complete coincidence. The viewer is only allotted a particular crop of this vision, generating further delusions about the spatial nature of these objects, as they perpetually float and meld together within the confines of the substrate.
Corydon Cowansage (b. 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) lives and works in New York. She received an MFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and a BA in art from Vassar College in 2008. She has participated in residencies at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. Cowansage’s work has been shown internationally with recent solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Corydon Cowansage (b. 1985, Philadelphia) Lives and works in Upstate New York.
Upcoming solo exhibitions
2024 kaufmann repetto, Milan
selected solo and two-person exhibitions
2023
tenderize, kaufmann repetto, New York
2022
Where Forever Begins, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome
Seed, Sean Horton, New York
2021
CHART, New York
2019
Koki Arts, Tokyo
Curvy, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond
2016
Dwell, 17 Essex, New York
Creeper, Deli Projects, Basel
selected group exhibitions
2024
FULL DISCLOSURE, Plains Art Museum, Fargo
2023
PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp
2022
Pattern Recognition, Sperone Westwater, New York
Landscape, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
Young Americans, PM/AM, London
Gado Gado, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp
Garden, Ladies Room LA (online), Los Angeles
Spiraling, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond
The Entelechians, curated by Rob Thomas and Eric Suwall, Ruschman Gallery, Chicago
2021
∞, Y2K Group, New York
Desire and Anxiety, G/ART/EN, Como
2019
Home Alone, curated by Jacqueline Cedar, Good Naked, Brooklyn
Highlight, Hollis Taggart, New York
2018
Re_Arrange, Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
Afire, Skylab, Columbus
When Geometry Smiles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn
Color We’ll, Barney Savage, New York
2017
Windowsill, Mountain, Brooklyn
First Year, 17 Essex, New York
The Structure of Things, Islip Art Museum, East Islip
2016
Stone Soup Nasty, Orgy Park, Brooklyn
2015
AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
2014
Salon Show, Regina Rex / (harbor), New York
Detail Oriented, James Graham & Sons, New York
Gravity, Projekt722, Brooklyn
The Woodpile, John Bianchi Studio, Brooklyn, new york
2013
Against Nature, James Graham & Sons, New York
Surface Intentions, Harbor, Brooklyn
2012
Almost Famous, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond
2011
MFA, Painting, RISD
2008
BA, Studio Art, Vassar College
residences
2014
AIM Residency, Bronx Museum of the Arts
2007
Yale Norfolk School of Art, Yale University
grant and awards
2013
W.K. Rose Fellowship, Vassar College
2007
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University
