Browsing by Author "Corso, John J."

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    Lalla Essaydi: Writing Femininity, Writing Pleasure
    (Oakland University, 2013-10-13) Corso, John J.; Doyle, Allan
    Excerpt from essay by John J. Corso: This exhibition brings together 20 large-scale photographic works, made from 2003 to 2012 and spanning five major bodies of work. In the earliest body of work, Converging Territories, Essaydi establishes the primary conditions of her aesthetic investigations: she photographs women elaborately adorned in henna script within exquisitely ornamented interiors. These works highlight the importance of writing in the creation of the self and of femininity.
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    Sally Schluter Tardella | Memory Palace
    (Oakland University, 2014-09-06) Goody, Dick; Corso, John J.
    Excerpt from Note form the curator: With these new bodies of work, Schluter Tardella offers two versions of memory. The paintings are declarative. They present a one-time version of events – an ossuary of recollections rendered down into a primary painterly structure. Her books, on the other hand, are more open-ended; their catacomb-like progress being labyrinthine, serpentine and sequential
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    Susan E. Evans | Kaiho
    (Oakland University, 2014-09-06) Goody, Dick; Corso, John J.
    Introduction: Kaiho is a Finnish word that does not directly translate into English. Kaiho is a state of hopeless, melancholic and/or nostalgic longing for something that is missing or gone. Kaiho is a deep emptiness where profound feelings, both happiness and sadness, exist simultaneously.
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    Susan Goethel Campbell | Field Guide
    (Oakland University, 2015-01-10) Goody, Dick; Corso, John J.; Campbell, Susan Geothal; Lashbrook, Debra
    Excerpt from artist's statement: My work is a hybrid between landscape and environment. In one sense, it has evolved right out of the Romantic tradition following Goethe’s claim that the landscape painter should pay greater attention to the specifics of the natural world. Although I am not a painter, the formalist, aesthetic part of me has focused on knowing the dynamic effects of landscape so that I can better understand and represent global environments. This includes the documentation of human agency both overhead and underfoot.