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Corey D’Augustine, photo: John Groo
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Corey D’Augustine, Photo: Groo
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Corey D’Augustine, Photo: Groo
Corey D'Augustine
Artist Talk: THursday, July 23
in the news:
August/September 2009: Art New England review
Artist Statement
"My work attempts to find a positive reception for the negativity that surrounds us by examining the intersection of formalism and everyday life.
We live in a reality of rampant social and economic inequality that is a function of social systems that consistently reward greed. For me, art is a model for a personal withdrawal from these systems to maintain a positive influence on the people and environment around us. This could be called positivist or utopian and is no new idea.
This model aims to erase preconceived distinctions in favor of the direct experience of materials and their formal qualities. To do this, I bring attention to aesthetic binary pairs and undercut their opposition through paradox. By highlighting the extraordinary qualities of everyday materials and the commonplace properties of fine materials, for example, or by locating refined qualities in the most prosaic techniques, I try to use perceived difference against itself toward a blank aesthetics.
For me blank is empty. Empty not as in zero, but as in nothing distinct, nothing artificial, nothing that makes it different from anything else. Art can be awareness and can change our relationship to what surrounds us."
Support
This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of our Members, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.