Deconstructions: Paintings by Marty Mccorkle

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DECONSTRUCTIONSPaintings by Marty McCorkle


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Samurai

Oil on Canvas

30 X 22 INCHES

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Copyright 2010 by Marty McCorkle

DECONSTRUCTIONSPaintings by Marty McCorkle


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Male Figure at Pool

Oil on Canvas

26 X 28 INHES

New art, if its good, hits you on the

head like a tea tray dropped from a

floating world.

Perhaps it falls from the clumsiness of a

divine icon taking siesta after tea in the clouds,

or from intentional mischief of an iconic diva

perched in Warhols studio, but in any case,

good new art kerplunks one on the old coconut

and makes stars circle it in cartoonish fashion;

recovering from the initial gaffah, one knows that

new doors of perceptions are creaking open, and

golly if you cant get more about this floating

world soon enough.

Ive painted canvas after canvas to open the

door to that floating world and intent on someday

beaning my fellow art lovers squarely between the

eyes.

When I began to paint in earnest in the late


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1990s, I understood that painting was dead.

All that could be said in painting has been

said, they said.

Far from being discouraged by

paintings autopsy, I felt relief not to have

to approach art seriously, but rather to play,

experiment and bounce rhythms on the

canvas. This is a delightful approach to art,

and if you are into art, or anything for that

matter I suspect, you should consider having

fun. One can be sincere, professional and

enthusiastic about art without being serious.

Armed with the certainty that painting

was a goner, off I went with a shovel (a

metaphorical one) and dug up its corpse

for some harmless giggles. And in my

experimental laboratory (studio) I found not

only that painting came alive, but sat up,

Leslie Looking at Distant

Shore

Oil on Canvas

14 X 10 INCHES

Pat on Turquoise Carpet

Oil on Canvas

28 X 36 INCHES


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Male Figure Looking Out Window

Oil on Canvas

14 X 20 INCHES


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Reflected Figure

Oil on Canvas

44 X 42 INCHES

Pat on Circular Rug

Oil on Canvas

30 X 22 INCHES


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Male Figure with Bat

Oil on Canvas48 X 36 INCHES

Twirling Figure

Oil on Canvas

38 X 48 INCHES

Pat on RailOil on Canvas

28 X 20 INHES


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Bather

Oil on Canvas

36 X 28 INCHES

Pat on Red Chair

Oil on Canvas

32 X 26 INCHES


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Pat on Circular Bed (detail below)

Oil on Canvas

20 X 48 INCHES


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asked for a glass of water and immediately

began to shimmer with life. Painting is

alive and doing cartwheels, thank you, and

shares a contagious enthusiasm for life.

The Deconstructionism Ism

An ism is an itchy affair, l ike a sweater

one receives for Christmas. On formal

occasions, one is obliged to wear it,

demonstrating to the aunt who bestowed

this itchy gift that it fits and is highly

cherished. It otherwise resides in the

second drawer of the dresser awaiting

deployment when the aunts return.

Thank goodness that art has broken out

of its monolithic movements packaging and

expresses itself more variously, like a series

of boutiques, more eclectic than it has been

Niccolo on Red Trim Chair

Oil on Canvas

29 X 22 INCHES


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Momentum of an Obsessive Mind

Oil on Canvas

58 X 72 INCHES


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Niccolo against Grey Wall

Oil on Canvas

30 X 19 INCHES

Nicollo with Green Background

Oil on Canvas

18 X 16 INCHES


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Suspended FigureOil on Canvas

28 X 20 INCHES

Nixon at Great Wall of China

Oil on Canvas

18 X 17 INCHES

Nicollo on Red Sofa

Oil on Canvas

19 X 13 INCHES

Artist Falling DownOil on Canvas

40 X 42 INCHES

Pat Holding Hair

Oil on Canvas

34 X 22 INCHES


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for some centuries.

Im sometimes asked how to describe

or classify my art, and a journalist friend

suggests deconstructive as a revealing

term. My painting does deconstruct or break

things down, but lyrically, rhythmically,

rather than through cool analysis.

Forms, shapes and colors become

juggly e lements in deconstructionism, but

one can extend deconstruction to the sense

of time, space and style. I like the medium

of oil painting because it carries a dusty,

hallowed pedigree, developing ambitions

in the late nineteenth century to depict

more than a flattering realism. Painting

houses the twentieth century artist Pable

Picasso, who would double back to raid

David and Goliath after Caravaggio

Oil on Canvas

48 X 36 INCHES


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Pat on Blue Platform

Oil on Canvas

38 X 48 INCHES


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Male Figure on Wood Deck


Travis and Mirror

Oil on Canvas

22 X 31 INCHESMale Figure on Aqua Floor



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the nineteenth century, breaking all

its trove of delicate works with his

violent pastiches and tributes, like a

Vik ing taking swings in a glassware

gift shop.

Deconstructionism has less to

rebel against in an art world where

anything now goes, but instead

opens up depiction in painting with

an almost baroque flamboyance.

In this approach, painting scrubs

depiction down to essential brush

strokes, harking back to Cezanne,

but freely disagrees with that

granddaddy of all painters by not

sensibly following and reinforcing

contours. Shimmering swaths of solid

color come into play.

For me, deconstructionism

suggests the power of the

Figure in Mirror

Oil on Canvas

34 X 48 INCHES

Figure on Green Carpet

Oil on Canvas

22 X 36 INCHES

Travis with Blue Dotted Line



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Figure on Hexgon

Oil on Canvas

48 X 34 INCHES

Travis on a Blue Chair

Oil on Canvas

28 X 20 INCHES

Male Figure by Pool



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brushstroke, the grand sweep of paint,

reminiscent of the Chinese ink paintings on

silk or paper, in which fewer brush strokes

create more energy and tension than many

smaller and fussier strokes would.

Im not sure why, but partial

transparency of figures helps to suggest

depth or dimension, leaving some objects

ghostly or unfinished, suggestive when

one partially covers one eye when looking

at things, or the sense of a person as

he moves about the room. Living beings

dont strike me as solid like statues or

photographs. They keep moving about in

time and space, coming and going, casting

depth, creating mood and aging.

Ill stop here. To speak more in this

vain becomes a bit ethereal, like eating

Esteban Reclining on Pillow

Oil on Canvas

18 X 12 INCHES


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Self Portrait

Oil on Canvas

14 X 10 INCHES

air sandwiches. Its better to look at the

paintings.

About Me

Having lived in Californias San Francisco

Bay Area for 15 years, I now reside with my

spouse, Esteban Sabar, in the Philippines.

For more samples of my painting, visit my

website at www.corkstudio.com or email me

at [email protected] .

I am represented by the following art galleries:Gallery Z

259 Atwells Avenue

Providence RI 02903, USA

Phone: (401) 454-8844

FAX: (401) 751-3295

galleryzprov.com

Ricco Renzo Gallery

GF LRI Design Plaza

210 N. Garcia Street

Bel Air II, Makati

(632) 898.2543

www.riccorenzo.com


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Esteban Sabar

Oil on Canvas

14 X 10 INCHES

Esteban Sabar


Peter L.

Oil on Canvas

18 X 22 INCHES

Self Portrait

Oil on Canvas

14 X 11 INCHES


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Nancy

Oil on Canvas

19 X 35 INCHES


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Sleepwalker

Oil on Canvas

36 X 23 INCHES

Travis Reclining

Oil on Canvas

38 X 28 INCHES

Curled Figure

Oil on Canvas

40 X 30 INCHES

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