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Marty McCorkle, Fine Artist Born in 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA. Artist’s StatementPainting excites and tickles me. I love painting and put a lot of energy, experiment and innovation into art.I often combine painting with digital imagery in ways that open painting to unexplored realms that defy the standard art lexicon. ‘Deconstructive painting’ may be a useful term to describe my work. I seek to depict our perception’s choppy, fragmentary nature over which the mind endlessly insists on apply a fiction of order. I frequently dismantle form to minimal shapes, colors and lines. I’m delighted blending traditional oil painting and modern digital media. High art and pedestrian electronica never mix properly, fighting one another for visual footing on the canvas’ stage; their conflict dissolves the fiction that some barrier exists between representational or abstract/non-objective art. Despite a grave insistence to the contrary, painting is very much alive in our hands, a new generation that welcomes inspiration from cinema, digital software, mathematics, and other often ignored visual sources to give painting a new say in bright, fresh ways that elude art language’s often backward looking descriptions. In short, I apply deconstructionism not only to depicted subjects and concepts, but to the fragile dogmas of painting itself. I have painted since my early teens and currently paint in our Philippines studio on a full time basis. Esteban Sabar, my spouse and art agent, actively supports my painting by promoting and selling my work to collectors around the world. |
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Exhibition History
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 Marty McCorkle: New Paintings, Giusepi’s, Tacloban, Philippines
2011 Pure Dynamite: Figurative Paintings by Marty McCorkle, Gallery Z, Providence, RI
2011 Marty McCorkle: New Paintings, lrafa, Calbayog, West Samar, Philippines
2011 Legendary 2, Lolo Dad’s Brasserie, Manilla, Philippines
2010 New Paintings, The I’s Plant, Calbayog, West Samar, Philippines
2010 Legendary, Ricco Renzo Galleries, Manilla, Philippines
2010 Proud Islands, Proud Seas, The I’s Plant, Calbayog, West Samar, Philippines
2009 Deconstructionism, Rico Renzo Galleries, Manila, Philippines
2007 Burdened Dreams, FLOAT Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Veiled Threats, Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Disassembly, Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 Studies of Pat, One Taste Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Figures, Factory 5 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Varied Perspectives, Factory 5 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Portraits, MAX Group, San Francisco, CA
2002 Bargaining with Tradition, Pendragon Books, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Cebu International Art Exhibit, Cebu Cultural Center, Cebu, Philippines
2010 ManilArt 10, Second Philippine International Fair, Manila, Philippines
2010 Dalla Collezione: Artists from the Gallery Z Stable, Gallery Z, Providence, RI
2008 Human Remains: art influenced by the Iraq war, Float Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Art Fair Now, Miami Beach, FL
2007 Sight Revamped, Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Selections: Artists of Gallery Z, Providence, RI
2007 FULL FRONTAL: a male view of the male figure, Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 Artists of Gallery Z, Gallery Z, Providence, RI
2007 Jarring Realities, Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA
2006 The Social Realists, Esteban Sabar Gallery, Oakland, CA
2005 Vacillate: A Conversation on Contemporary Femininity, Gallery Z, Providence, RI
2005 The Reflected Figure, Factory 5 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Spring Group Show, Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, Kirkland, WA
2003 Open Studios, ArtSpan, San Francisco, CA
2002 Open Studios, ArtSpan, San Francisco, CA
Private Collections of Marty McCorkle’s Art
Art by Marty McCorkle are part of private collections in the USA, Canada, UK, France, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Hong Kong, Singopore, Thailand, and Fiji.
Contact Marty McCorkle
I live and paint in Calbayog City, Western Samar, Philippines.
Email: martymccorkle@yahoo.com
For pricing and purchase information, contact Esteban Sabar, Art Dealer
Esteban Sabar, my spouse and an art agent, actively supports my painting by promoting and selling all of my work to collectors around the world. Contact him for information and purchase enquiries regarding any of my art. Esteban Sabar
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Articles About Marty McCorkle
Sketching Marty McCorkleA "restless" McCorkle is observantly sketched in Oakbook Magazine’s Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar. …Read Escaping OutlinesFood For Thought by Brian Krepshaw …Read What a Face. What a Body.East Bay Express’s Rachel Swan explores McCorkle’s art and process.…Read |
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Videos about Marty McCorkle
Uncertain Outome: Paintings by Marty McCorkle
A short, bursty intro to Marty McCorkle’s art, this video shares the artist’s fresh and personal reinvention of the sometimes dusty, tradition-laden medium of oil painting.
Hidden Buddha, Obsessive Mind
Through the painting “Momentum of a an Obsessive Mind”, artist Marty McCorkle shares his insights regarding consciousness and relief from the mind’s habitual obsessions.