Corey McCorkle (b. 1969, Wisconsin) works in photography, architectural interventions, sculpture, installation, and film. His practice responds directly to its environment and context. Per fellow artist Mungo Thomson:

“Corey’s art is a sculpture of comic and romantic utopian dematerialization. It speaks to transience and good solid design. The work loves negative space—the atmosphere of the room, the emptied mind, the space inside the word om. But it also loves molded plywood and acrylic, vinyl and foam core, the histrionics and palliatives of Shirley MacLaine, the about-to-take-flight look of Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal, ikebana flower arrangement… Corey is interested in the intangible and elliptical, the sounds and vapors that float between objects and through rooms, in adding color or shape or wood grain to them and making them perceptible. And he is interested in the pilgrims who wander through these rooms as well. Corey’s sculptures and installations are shiny, ghostly shells for human occupation, chrysalises to step into and come out of transformed.”

McCorkle has exhibited internationally, often with site-specific installations ingrained into the institution’s architecture. He was part of the group exhibition Detourism at The Renaissance Society in 2001, which explored how globalization is narrated through artwork.

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