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. ...
francesca kaufmann gallery opened in January 2000. Since then, the gallery has aimed to explore a diverse range of media, with a focus on video, site specific installation, and a special attention towards the works of female artists. After ten years in its historical location, the gallery opened in a new space in October 2010, under the name kaufmann repetto, to mark the partnership between Francesca Kaufmann and Chiara Repetto. In its new location, the gallery has been able to further develop its exhibition programming through a project space dedicated predominantly to younger artists, as well as a courtyard for large scale outdoor installations, which run parallel to the gallery’s main exhibition schedule. In 2013, the gallery inaugurated a new location in Chelsea, New York, with a parallel program to the gallery’s main space in Milan. In 2019 the New York location moved to Tribeca, expanding to a 3,000 sq ft exhibition space. The inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space in Tribeca was a solo show by Lily van der Stokker. ...
