Artist Statements click on artist name to view statement STATEMENT Architecture, Art, Sculpture, the Human Figure, Drawing, Painting. Creating new products and businesses, it all ties together. I’m fortunate that my business life feeds my artistic life, and vice versa. My goal is to accurately recreate the human form, with all the wonderful vagaries and individual uniqueness, first in clay, and then take it all the way through the lost wax process, to a patinaed bronze sculpture. I want to create pleasing works of art that resonate with the viewer and gives them ongoing pleasure. About his work, Mr. Rockwood states, " The vision I attempt to create through painting arises from the endless resources created in the imagination. I believe that there are no limits to what can be imagined. Bringing my thoughts and ideas to fruition is where I am challenged as an artist. My paintings are composed of many different mediums that combined with light, shadows, and words evoke emotions. I am in constant search for new materials and words to express these visions." Mr. Rockwood was born and raised in the San Francisco bay area. He has lived in Los Angeles and Dallas. After receiving an undergraduate degree from San Jose State University in 1986, Cory attended culinary school in California. He has worked as a chef in many of the top restaurants in Northern California. He started painting while in chef school and his painting and creating of art has followed him throughout hi life. Originally he began by creating floor lamps out of hand made metal frames and rice paper. He later moved to canvas and acrylic paints on metal frames. He relocated to Western Pennsylvania nine years ago. In the Pittsburgh area, Cory developed his art, through art study and affiliations with other local artists. He has also enlisted new techniques in welding, metal fabrication; statuary casting and silk-screening that have helped his art to evolve to its present state. His artwork has been displayed in several solo and group shows, and he is a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and Group A. He currently is in his Mt. Washington studio working on new pieces. His newest work combines conventional canvas painting surfaces with statuary work embedded into his canvas, chemical transfers, silk screening photographic projection, and surface lights. What is created is a painting with three-dimensional qualities and multimedia aspects that allow the work to extend the parameters of the canvas. |
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