Artist of the Month
Corinne Geertsen took a Photoshop class in 2007 with the intent of restoring old photographs, but taking that class placed her on a completely different path. “A few weeks into the class, I began seeing the people in my photos as characters in dramas” Geertsen says. “I’ve been working digitally ever since.” As a digital […]
Life is But a Dream for Valley Artist by Nate Lipka
The old collides with the new. The everyday is punched up by elements of fantasy, mystery and whimsy. It’s familiar, but definitely strange. These are as much descriptions of Valley artist Corinne Geertsen’s newest exhibition “Parlor Games,” opening this Friday and on display at After Hours Gallery through the end of November, as they are […]
Freudian Hip by Nicholas Gerbis
Ceci n’est pas un cigar. Surrealism was always a muddled movement. Nevertheless, it succeeded in imprinting its aesthetic and stylistic qualities in the collective unconscious. Witness that museum of co-opted rebellions, the dorm room, where Dalis and Magrittes nestle between posters of Che Guevara and decades-defunct punk bands. That’s more an indictment of poseurs than […]
Corinne Geertsen at Mesa Contemporary Arts by Scott Andrews
Corinne Geertsen at Mesa Contemporary Arts by Scott Andrews Mesa Contemporary Arts, whose five galleries join four theaters and 14 art studios, in the Mesa Arts Center (MAC), has been bringing the East Valley crowd in strength since it opend five years ago. Part of the galleries’ reason for success is no doubt because the […]
5 Questions by Mandy Zajac
Mind Trip by Mandy Zajac There’s something at once modern and old-fashioned about Corinne Geertsen’s photography. Not to mention a little bizarro. The Mesa artist uses digital technology to create surreal collages that meld new photographs with old family portraits. The results are whimsical, often tongue-in-cheek scenes in which serious-faced folk in frilly, turn-of-the-century clothes […]
