Corrie Slawson

Born June 30, 1975, Cleveland, OH

EDUCATION

MFA Major Painting/Minor Printmaking, Kent State University, Kent, OH 2006
BFA Major Painting/Minor Printmaking, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 1997

EXHIBITIONS

Solo and Two-Person:

2015 Gaps, Voids & Borders (some imagined, all arbitrary), Soltesz Fine Art, Portland, OR

A desert of magnificence... (a glittering waste of laborious idleness), SHAHEEN, Cleveland, OH

Take I-80W until the light changes, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL

2013 Making Money the Harder Way, (with Elizabeth Emery), The Sculpture Center, Cleveland

2010 Work Party 118, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2008 Pulled Passed, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH with Emily Blaser
2006 Portfolio, Volume 3, Issue 25 Angle: A Journal of Arts & Culture, Cleveland, OH

2005 Processed Meaning, Kent State University School of Art

Group:

2016 Curator's Choice, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, OH

Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation, LBI, NJ

Premio Marchianni, Fondazione Estetica & Progresso, Sardinia, Italy

2015 The People's Revisionist Natural History Museum, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

Revision Gobal Review Bejing-Tijuana, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja, CA, Mexico

2014 95th Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH

Behind the Platen, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA & Univ. of Akron, Akron, OH
U R B A N S C A P E FROM A BIZARRE PRESENT, TJ in China Project Space, Tijuana, Baja, CA, Mexico

In Print, Cleveland Clinic Glickman Tower, Cleveland, OH (April-July)
Vacancy, No Vacancy (curated by Lisa Kurzner & Jon Seydl), Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH

2013 Ctrl+Alt+Del (curated by Indra Lacis), Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

Parsons Alumni Exhibition, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Curb Appeal, Rooms to Let Temporary Art Space, Columbus, OH

Extreme Nature, Tri-C West Gallery, Parma, OH

2012 Paperworks (curated by Andrea Joki), Heights Arts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH

Time and Place, Urban Art Space at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Foreign Affairs, Galerie Standenhaus, Dresden, Germany
Arts QuArter, curated by Barbara Tannenbaum, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

72nd Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

8501 to 11400 (curated by Megan Lykins Reich), Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland, OH

2011 Colorado, Galerie Module Drei, Dresden, Germany

3 Artists, one exquiste wall, Zygote Press

Moving On (curated by Prof. Martin Ball), KSU Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH

2010 Be A Nomad, Cleveland Public Art & Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

4 Ohio Print Shops, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

2009 Works In Progress, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

William Busta Presents: Zygote Press Year 12, The Beck Center, Lakewood, OH

2007 Nancie Mattice Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, Dangenart Gallery, Nashville TN

2006 Street Repairs (curated by Don Harvey), SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

Nesnadny and Schwartz Visiting Critic Program (studio visit with Andria Hickey), MOCACleveland (July 2014)

3rd Place, Vacancy, No Vacancy (curated by Lisa Kurzner & Jon Seydl), Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH (April 2014)

TJINCHINA Project Space, Tijuana, Mexico (March 2014)
The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY (2012-14)
Quarter Art Editions, SPACES, Cleveland, OH (2013)
Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council (2D Visual Arts, 2011)
Residency Fellowship, Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany (Sep-Oct 2011)

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

Columbus Metropolitan Library, Driving Park Branch, Columbus, OH (2016)

Warehouse Distict Anthology Historical Markers (8 total), LAND Studio & Cleveland’s Warehouse District (2013-14)

ARCHIVES / COLLECTIONS

Ohio Arts Council

Zygote Press Archives

The Cleveland Clinic

Progressive Insurance

Metro Health Systems of Cleveland

University Hospitals of Cleveland

The Westin Hotel, Cleveland

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Johnson, Pat, LBIF: "Works on Paper" National Competition, The Sandpaper, Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Norton-Westbrook, Halona, "Slawson at Shaheen, Before and After," ArtHopper.org, June 29, 2016

Meis, Morgan, "28 Days in Cleveland," Art Hopper, July 2015.

Holslin, Jill, "Aesthetic Dislocations: TJ in China Project Space remakes Tijuana's Image," Art at the Edges, May 2014

Utter, Douglas Max, "Before MOCA Cleveland's move, last exhibit looks ahead and back," The Plain Dealer, February 2012.

Utter, Douglas Max, "The Tying of Plot 118; SpaceLab takes a walk on the east side," Cleveland Scene, February 2010

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Visiting Artist, Kent Blossom, Kent State University School of Art, Kent, OH (June 2016)

Panelist, Printshop As Watering Hole, College Arts Association, New York, NY (Feb. 2015)
Curator, They Came. They Saw. They Printed!, Zygote Press Archive Exhibition, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

(Feb 6-April 2, 2015) / Current Zygote Press Grants Director & Archivist
Adjunct Faculty, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Printmaking & Painting Departments (2013-present) Grants Director & Archivist, Zygote Press, Inc., Cleveland, OH (2011-present)

Exhibition Development Specialist, The International SPY Museum, Washington DC (2001-2002) & The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (2004-2008)

The old flower shop is now a hospital parking lot; they're calling those new condos "Upper Chester", 2015

Screen print, paper lithography, acrylic, spray paint and pencil on paper
41 x 60 inches

Phosphorus "runoff" and favorable Lake conditions produce a bloom..., 2015

Screen print, acrylic, spray paint, silver leaf and pencil on paper
42 x 57 inches

"#1" across from the new "Upper Chester" condos, 2015

Screen print, paper lithography, acrylic, spray paint and pencil on paper
41 x 60 inches

Back and forth to Collinwood from the Heights (the minaret is made from waterproof fabric.), 2015

Screen print, paper lithography, acrylic, Sumi ink, spray paint and pencil on paper
47 x 91 inches

Doan brook slowly got buried over 200 years but it pops out here and there..., 2015

Screen print, paper lithography, acrylic, Sumi ink, spray paint and pencil on paper
47 x 90 inches

Fences keep the Border safe; Kiddie Park barricades keep the kids safe..., 2015

Screen print, acrylic, spray paint, silver leaf/flashing tape, pencil on laser cut paper
32 x 44 inches

The Hollenden Hotel, caged for demolition. The rest of the city can topple in its wake..., 2015

Screenprint, pencil, spray paint, silver leaf, Sumi ink & pencil on paper
31 x 50 inches

It radiated from the Shop n Save at Euclid and Noble...they heard it all the way on Pluto, 2015

Screen print, acrylic, spray paint, silver leaf and pencil on paper
48 x 70 inches

Musicians' Towers is home to over 1100 residents; we pass it on our walks, 2015

Screen print, paper lithography, acrylic, Sumi ink, spray paint and pencil on paper
52 x 85 inches

Village Market, West, from Memphis Kiddie Park across town back East to Parking, 2015

Screen print, paper lithography, acrylic, spray paint and pencil on paper
41 x 60 inches

I run Power Station Beta. It draws energy from the waves and desalinates the water... I work alone, 2017

Screenprint, oil, acrylic, silver leaf and spray paint on paper
22 x 31 inches

Crossing the border; it has long been the most armored place on the continent, 2017

Photo Lithography, Screenprint, colored pencil, acrylic, gold and silver leaf, collage and spray paint on paper
22.5 x 48.5 inches

The sun rises over the canyon mixing with ocean air. It lifts a crimson haze on a succulent studded , 2017

Photo Lithography, Screenprint, colored pencil, oil, acrylic, gold leaf and spray paint on paper
23 x 63.75 inches

Exhibitions

Corrie Slawson: Itâ€™s hard to explain, but it happened slowly, the transition	Jul 28, 2017 - Jul 28, 2017
Corrie Slawson: A desert of magnificence... (a glittering waste of laborious idleness.)	Nov 20, 2015 - Nov 20, 2015

Corrie Slawson

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The old flower shop is now a hospital parking lot; they're calling those new condos "Upper Chester", 2015

Phosphorus "runoff" and favorable Lake conditions produce a bloom..., 2015

"#1" across from the new "Upper Chester" condos, 2015

Back and forth to Collinwood from the Heights (the minaret is made from waterproof fabric.), 2015

Doan brook slowly got buried over 200 years but it pops out here and there..., 2015

Fences keep the Border safe; Kiddie Park barricades keep the kids safe..., 2015

The Hollenden Hotel, caged for demolition. The rest of the city can topple in its wake..., 2015

It radiated from the Shop n Save at Euclid and Noble...they heard it all the way on Pluto, 2015

Musicians' Towers is home to over 1100 residents; we pass it on our walks, 2015

Village Market, West, from Memphis Kiddie Park across town back East to Parking, 2015

I run Power Station Beta. It draws energy from the waves and desalinates the water... I work alone, 2017

Crossing the border; it has long been the most armored place on the continent, 2017

The sun rises over the canyon mixing with ocean air. It lifts a crimson haze on a succulent studded , 2017

Exhibitions