Corey Fogel

Artist’s Statement

My current practice evolved from integrating performance with my earliest creative impulses- adolescent experiments with androgyny, color, fashion, rebellion, and humor. Previously compartmentalized personal expression, craft, and music, now co-exist to explore the sublime.

Synesthesia, sensuality, and spirituality have always led me to work instinctually with subjects that naturally attract me. I am inspired by abstract characters that exist between mediums. I create performances by transposing linear and minimalist musical structures into vibrant, multi-layered compositions of fabric, object, sound, gesture, and organic material. Many works are improvisational, and site-specific. A familiar, inviting, perhaps tongue-in-cheek trope provides a platform for more abstract manipulations, often developing into a surreal myth or ritual. Using materiality, physicality, temporality and corporeality, I engage various media to accomplish newly discovered tasks. I try to intuit the most authentic role for each of my subjects, often uncovering innately sexual, visceral relationships that mirror my behaviors as a percussionist. My recent goals are to stage and distill sculptural, video, and photographic pieces that preserve or pause rich ephemeral moments, to collapse boundaries between disciplines.

Website: knitdrums.tumblr.com

Biography

Select Solo Exhibitions from 2010-2014

2013
PSYCHIC CURRENCY. Night Gallery, Los Angeles

2012
corey marc fogel. (fanpage), Facebook.
SPUNOFF MUSIC [Vos iz Abspaltung (musik)? danken!] Machine Project, Los
Angeles

2011
Corey Fogel A.I.R. UCLA-Hammer Museum’s Public Engagement Series

Select Group Exhibitions from 2010-2014

2013
Blended. SeeLine Gallery, Los Angeles

2012
Three Day Weekend. Public Fiction, Los Angeles

2012
Transmission AV Club. MOCA, Los Angeles

2011
The Collective Show. Human Resources, Los Angeles

Select Community-based Artwork

2013
Swash Motions. 5/18/2013.
Cannonball. Miami, FL

2011
Magnolia Alternative. The Wulf @ MOCASunday Studio.

EDUCATION

M.F.A., 2004
California Institute of the Arts

B.A., 2001
Arizona State University