07/07/2019
Similar Folk by Bryan J. Corley
August 2nd 7-11pm
NEW Solo Art Exhibit featuring local Detroit artist Bryan J. Corley
Similiar Folks is a body of work that gleans inspiration from a number of sources including the manga comic 'Aku No Hana', a passage from 'the Coming Insurection' about work consuming any action dubbed 'not work', the song 'little boxes',the gradient of urban to suburban landscape in Metro Detroit, that flat landscape often sprouting weeds, bodily tensions,narratives of the western artist in consumption of the African material culture. Images used for the progression of modern art where much of the supercrude expressionistic line and colour in Corley's work finds origin.
Corley experiments with placing hieroglyphic like figurations side by side in an abstract interpersonal narrative. The colour choices within this body of work are meant to reflect the intense heat of a michigan summer that collapses into autumn as suddenly as a yellow August sun seems to arise. summer made miniscule by the intense grey months that absorb “those 3 months intense heat.
Chromatic Folk Acrylic paint from Walmart is slathered in layers on cardboard, straight from the factory floors of the McClures Pickle building and accentuated by mixed media, spray cans, charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, sharpie, pastel, and oil that find their way onto the canvas through an erratic but exact process as the painting is tuned into the final composition.
