Corydon Cowansage reimagines the familiar, turning everyday forms into bold, surreal worlds that play with perception, light, and color. Drawing inspiration from architectural details and bodily contours, she abstracts these referents through vibrant, hard-edge color, geometric patterns, and meticulous painterly handling. By manipulating scale and perspective, her work produces an uncanny, embodied experience for the viewer, bridging micro and macro perspectives. Her compositions often feature repeating, biomorphic forms that evoke natural and bodily patterns, including leaves, flowers, lips, skin, drips, and cellular structures. These forms are depicted with careful attention to light and shadow, giving them a tangible presence while maintaining a sense of abstraction. Cowansage’s tightly cropped, rhythmically arranged canvases create perceptual shifts and spatial illusions, encouraging viewers to reconsider familiar forms in new ways. Through this interplay of abstraction, representation, and optical perception, her work transforms the mundane into the extraordinary, revealing the hidden beauty and complexity of everyday life. ...
