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Round
Oil and mixed media on birch plywood
23 ½ x 20 inches
Courtesy of SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art
Estimated Retail Value: $4,200
Starting Bid: $1,200
Corrie Slawson creates visually rich works that combine painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage into striking compositions that blend recognizable places and everyday scenes with abstracted forms to create a heightened, almost cinematic intensity. Both immediate and expansive, Slawson’s work is rooted in close observation and research tied to the artist’s concerns for the inequities in our world. Cloud Cover Over/In the Pantheon is from her newest body of work, which focuses on the political vulnerability of women’s bodily autonomy.
Overlaying recognizable elements like the Pantheon with shapes and forms that suggest the female reproductive system, Slawson reminds us of the long history of attempted control over women’s bodies and the persistent strength and resistance of women throughout time.
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Corrie Slawson
Corrie Slawson received her BFA from Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Kent State University. Her work has been exhibited at moCa Cleveland, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, the Massillon Museum, SPACES, and The Sculpture Center, and internationally at venues including Centro Cultural Tijuana and Galerie Module Drei in Dresden, Germany. Slawson’s layered, narratively charged works are also held in public and private collections including those of Arizona State University, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Illinois, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Progressive Insurance.
