Biografia
The comforts and tensions of domestic life, and the acquired roles of women, have been constant themes in the work of Candice Smith Corby. Her most recent paintings, including works in gouache and watercolor on paper, explore psychological and domestic spaces created and influenced by children's games and imaginative role-playing. Quilts and blankets envelop tables and chairs, conjuring forts, fox dens and dens of thieves. The textiles -- rendered with Smith Corby's expert handling of line, pattern and color -- simultaneously reveal and conceal. The furniture is arranged in untenable configurations, shaping unstable and irrational spaces. These illusionistic, escapist-leaning tableaux, like the notion of play itself, test the boundary between reality and fiction.
Candice Smith Corby earned her MFA in Painting at Massachusetts College of Art, and since then her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows. She is currently the Cushing-Martin Gallery Director at Stonehill College, where she curates exhibitions and teaches studio art courses. Smith Corby is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Painting (2008), a Dave Bown Award recipient (2011), and has been a visiting artist and lecturer at several colleges in Massachusetts.
