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Mary Corse

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b. 1945, USA

Mary Corse (b. 1945, Berkeley, California) investigates materiality, abstraction, and perception through the subtly gestural and precisely geometric paintings that she has made over her fifty-year career. Earning a BFA in 1968 from Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, Corse developed her initial work during the emergence of the Light and Space movement in Southern California. Throughout the 1960s, she experimented with unconventional media and supports, producing shaped canvases, works with plexiglass, and illuminated boxes. In 1968, Corse discovered glass microspheres, an industrial material used in street signs and dividing lines on highways. Combining these tiny refractive beads with acrylic paint, she creates paintings that appear to radiate light from within and produce shifts in appearance contingent on their surroundings and the viewer's position. Corse's art emphasises the abstract nature of human perception, expanding beyond the visual to include subtleties of feeling and awareness.

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Corse's work has been included in historically significant group exhibitions, including Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A., Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970 at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2011); and Phenomenal: California Light and Space at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2011). In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened the solo exhibition A Survey in Light. Her work is held in numerous public collections worldwide, including Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

Text courtesy Pace Gallery.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Mary Corse, Seen and Unseen at Pace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Closed 29 March–30 April 2022 Mary Corse Seen and Unseen Seoul
Contemporary art exhibition, Mary Corse, Mary Corse at Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, USA Closed 4 November 2021–29 January 2022 Mary Corse Palo Alto
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, A room with a... at Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, USA Closed 4 June–10 September 2021 Group Exhibition A room with a... Palm Beach
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Presentation, Group Presentation at Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, USA Closed 13 March–24 April 2021 Group Presentation 540 West 25th Street, New York
Contemporary art exhibition, Mary Corse, Mary Corse at Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, 540 West 25th Street, New York, USA Closed 4–21 February 2021 Mary Corse 540 West 25th Street, New York
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Bloom of Joy at Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR, China Closed 4 September–15 October 2020 Group Exhibition Bloom of Joy Hong Kong
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Show, Group Show East Hampton at East Hampton, 68 Park Place, 540 West 25th Street, New York, USA Closed 22 July–2 August 2020 Group Show Group Show East Hampton 540 West 25th Street, New York
Contemporary art exhibition, Mary Corse, Recent Paintings at Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York, USA Closed 8 November 2019–11 January 2020 Mary Corse Recent Paintings 540 West 25th Street, New York
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, At the Edge of Things: Baer, Corse, Martin at Pace Gallery, 6 Burlington Gardens, London, United Kingdom Closed 7 June–14 August 2019 Group Exhibition At the Edge of Things: Baer, Corse, Martin 6 Burlington Gardens, London
Contemporary art exhibition, Mary Corse, Mary Corse at Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR, China Closed 26 March–11 May 2019 Mary Corse Hong Kong

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Untitled (Beams) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork sculpture
Mary Corse Untitled (Beams), 2021 Glass microspheres on powder coated stainless steel
213.4 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled (Electric Light) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork sculpture
Mary Corse Untitled (Electric Light), 2021 Argon, Plexiglas, high-frequency generator, light tubes, monofilament
198.1 x 68.6 x 15.2 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled (White Inner Band with White Sides, Beveled) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork painting
Mary Corse Untitled (White Inner Band with White Sides, Beveled), 2022 Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas
208.3 x 170.2 x 10.2 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled (White, Black, Blue, Beveled) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork painting
Mary Corse Untitled (White, Black, Blue, Beveled), 2022 Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas
213.4 x 213.4 x 10.2 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled (White, Black, Red, Beveled) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork painting
Mary Corse Untitled (White, Black, Red, Beveled), 2022 Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas
213.4 x 213.4 x 10.2 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled (Electric Light) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork sculpture
Mary Corse Untitled (Electric Light), 2021 Argon, Plexiglas, high-frequency generator, light tubes, monofilament
198.1 x 68.6 x 15.2 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled (White Multiband, Horizontal Strokes) by Mary Corse contemporary artwork mixed media
Mary Corse Untitled (White Multiband, Horizontal Strokes), 2021 Glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas
198.1 x 259.1 cm
Pace Gallery
Untitled by Mary Corse contemporary artwork mixed media
Mary Corse Untitled, 2020 Glass microspheres in acrylic on powder coated aluminium
213.4 x 228.6 cm
Pace Gallery
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Mary Corse In Ocula Magazine

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Kiaf Seoul Marks 20th Anniversary with an International Outlook Ocula Insight Kiaf Seoul Marks 20th Anniversary with an International Outlook By Sherry Paik, Seoul

As Seoul cements itself as one of the world's most attractive art hubs, Kiaf Seoul celebrates its 20th anniversary edition.

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Mary Corse at LACMA: Painting Light and Space Ocula Insight Mary Corse at LACMA: Painting Light and Space By Sherry Paik, Los Angeles

Mary Corse's decades-long and ongoing interest in the perceptual experience of light is the focus of the artist's retrospective on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Corse: A Survey in Light (28 July–11 November 2019).

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Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem Ocula Feature Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019: A Post-mortem By Diana d’Arenberg, Hong Kong

Ocula contributor Diana d'Arenberg gives her annual post-mortem of Hong Kong's Art Basel week, running through some of the highs and lows of the fair's seventh edition, which opened to the public from 29 to 31 March 2019.

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Art Basel in Hong Kong: Exhibitions to See in 2019 Ocula Feature Art Basel in Hong Kong: Exhibitions to See in 2019 By Tessa Moldan, Hong Kong

For those visiting Art Basel in Hong Kong (29–31 March 2019), find out what is currently making the city's art scene tick with this guide of exhibitions to see.

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MARY CORSE: A Survey in Light Related Press MARY CORSE: A Survey in Light 11 July 2018, The Brooklyn Rail

At the entrance to Mary Corse: A Survey in Light at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a monitor plays White Light (1968), a film showing a young Mary Corse at work in her studio. In one scene, C

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The Californian Artist Posing Questions of Light and Space Related Press The Californian Artist Posing Questions of Light and Space 6 June 2018, AnOther Magazine

With a recent gallery installation at Dia:Beacon and an upcoming solo show at the Whitney in New York, Mary Corse is having a significant, well-earned moment of recognition. Working as a dedicated art

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Quantum leap for Mary Corse as clutch of shows brings overdue recognition Related Press Quantum leap for Mary Corse as clutch of shows brings overdue recognition 4 May 2018, The Art Newspaper

At the age of 72, Mary Corse will have her first solo museum exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art next month. A group of her pioneering abstract paintings has also recently been acquired b

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Spotlight On Mary Corse Related Press Spotlight On Mary Corse 25 January 2018, Architectural Digest

Nestled in a canyon on the outskirts of Los Angeles, artist Mary Corse’s house and studio are a short drive—but a world away—from the city’s hustle and bustle. Cell service cuts out en route to her ho

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Mary Corse In Video & Audio

Mary Corse in Conversation with Carolina A. Miranda Related Video & Audio Mary Corse in Conversation with Carolina A. Miranda 6 June 2018, Kayne Griffin Corcoran

Artist Mary Corse in conversation with Los Angeles Times culture writer and winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism Carolina A. Miranda at Kayne Griffin Corcoran discussing Corse's p

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