Corey Drieth
Assistant Professor of Drawing & Painting
Degrees:
M.F.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
B.F.A. Colorado State University, Studio Art, Fort Collins, CO, 2000
B.A. Colorado State University, Philosophy/Comparative Religious Studies, Fort Collins, CO, 1992
Inspired by the natural world, art history, and religious traditions such as Zen Buddhism and Quaker Christianity, my paintings and drawings explore contemplative spiritual experience. My work begins with the basic design and construction materials of gouache and wood. Through the economical use of line, color, texture, and illusion of light and space, I create a visual dialogue between painted surface and wooden substrate. The resonance of this interaction is at once mysterious and intimately familiar, an experience often associated with moments of contemplative insight. Due to my content aspirations, this work belons within the American tradition of small-scale, non-representational abstraction, with artists like Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Tobey, and Agnes Martin, as some of its precedents.
I believe that experiences of subtle structual beauty can be incredibly valuable. Because they require quietude during a time of de-humanizing speed, clutter, and noise, they serve as both a foil to the frenetic activity of contemporary life and as a method of sustenance within it. Thus, work that inspires such experiences holds an important place in current critical dialogue.
Selected Work
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Selected Exhibitions:
2008
Small Scale Abstraction, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Faculty Exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art, The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
Intuitive Geometries, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2007
Double Rubble, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Tablet, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, TN
Strictly Painting 6: Color Field Revisited, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Equivalents, San Francisco Studio School, San Francisco, CA
Exploring Spirituality, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2006
Intimate Matter, The Off Grounds Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
15th Annual National Juried Show, Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD
Americas 2000, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND
Picture This: 10, Exploris Museum, Raleigh, NC
2005
Wild and Sweet, Orpheum Art Space, Albuquerque, NM
Small Paintings, Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Reason to Be, Orpheum Art Space, Albuquerque, NM
Picture This: 9, Exploris Museum, Raleigh, NC
Faculty Artists Biennial, Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2004
New Work, Dell Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Bunker, The Clean Room, Carrboro, NC
Rituals, Breathe Contemporary Art Space, Davidson, NC
New Currents in Contemporary Art, Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Selected Grants & Awards:
2007-2008, President's Fund for the Humanities Grant, University of Colorado System
2007, Juror's Award: Strictly Painting 6: Color Field Revisited, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2004, Nominated Faculty Juror, Kachergis Memorial Scholarship Competition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Lectures and Professional Activities:
2008, Children's Studio Workshop, Clark Elementary School, Charlottesville, VA
2008, Studio Workshop: The Fort Collins Shambala Meditation Center, Inviting Wisdom Series, Fort Collins, CO
2008, Artist Talk: Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
Courses I Teach:
VA
413: Advanced Painting
VA 398: Seminar: Studio Problems
VA 306: 2D Topics: Advanced Painting and Drawing
VA 213: Beginning Painting
VA 201: Intermediate Drawing
VA 104: Beginning Drawing
VA 101: 2D Studio
VA 940: Independent Study