Like cinematic scenes from some post-industry otherworld, toggling between backdrops of metropolis and flatlands, Lorie Corbus' mixed media paintings are inhabited by deserted buildings, boxcar children, and most recently, slingshot warriors with a fashion sense.  Using pencil, marker, ink, oil paint, marble dust, and collage, the artist juxtaposes disparate images to create compositions “reflecting an almost melancholy hopefulness.” Using her own photographs, as well as found imagery, the artist removes focal points from their original context, and places them in unlikely environments.

Corbus was chosen as one of Georgia’s Young Movers and Shakers of 2006 by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Ga. She has performed with One Railroad Circus, an all women’s performance troupe based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and toured and recorded as an accordionist with the alt-country band, The Dolly Ranchers. Corbus lives and works in Savannah, Georgia where she graduated summa cum laude from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

EDUCATION:
2002 BFA Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1998 Berea College, Berea, KY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2009 Telfair Art Ball, Savannah, Ga
2008 Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, Ga
2008 Summer Art Revue, Savannah, Ga
2008 Telfair Art Ball, Savannah, Ga
2007 “Extended Play” Sentient Bean, Savannah, Ga
2007 Art Papers Art Auction, Atlanta, Ga
2007 MOCA GA, Atlanta, Ga
2007 Telfair Art Ball, Savannah, Ga
2006 Art Papers Art Auction, Mason Murer, Atlanta, Ga
2006 Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, Ga
2006 CAS Fine Art Exhibition, Savannah, Ga
2005 Small Works, Savannah Gallery, Atlanta, Ga
2005 Small Works, Red Gallery, Savannah, Ga
2002 First Biannual Specific Art Symposium, Starland, Savannah, Ga
2001 “Body Work” Henry Hall, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 “The Marching Band Sent Them Off With A Bang” Shop SCAD, Atlanta, Ga
2006 Summer/Fall Exhibition at Memorial Hospital, SCAD Annex Gallery, Savannah, Ga
2002 “Palimpsest” Henry Hall, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga
 
AWARDS, HONORS, AND JURIES:
2008 Best In Show In Open Art, Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, Ga
2007 Young Emerging Artists: The Movers and Shakers of the Georgia Art Scene, MOCA GA, Atlanta, Ga
2006 Best In Show, Telfair Art Fair, Savannah, Ga
2002 Savannah College of Art and Design Outstanding Student, Savannah, Ga
2000-2002 Harold M. Cerra Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga
1998 Rude Olsolnik Scholarship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
 
PUBLICATIONS:
Oxford American May 2009
Connect Savannah July 22–28 2008
South Magazine Aug./Sept. 2007
Savannah Morning News Nov. 5, 2006
Southern Accents Magazine Nov./Dec. 2006
Connect Savannah Nov. 1-7 2006
Telfair Preview Sep. 2006
SOFA Chicago Catalogue, 2003
Art Papers, Sep./Oct. 2002
Savannah Now, 5/12/02

SELECT PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Buckhead Club, Atlanta GA,
Snowmass Conference Center, Snowmass Village, CO,
Berea College, Berea, KY,
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA,

Clark Tate III, Atlanta, GA, Kathryn Harvey, New York, NY, Kristine Bothwell, Savannah, Ga, Ilyse Simon, Kingston, NY,  Dr. Daniel Suh, Savannah, GA, Allison Conrad, Atlanta, GA, Susan Kingery, Atlanta, GA, Juliette Bell, Savannah GA,  Marcus Kenney, Savannah, GA, Meredith Repella, Savannah, GA
 

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