TBD (Surrender Dorothy)

From my most recent curatorial project:

Check the Children:
New Work by Corkey Sinks
New work by Chicago-based artist Corkey Sinks explores modern incarnations of mythology, folklore, fairy tales, superstition, and urban legend in horror film and teen culture. Through drawing, soft sculpture, installation, video, and GIF animation, Sinks quietly tracks the contemporary chronology of ancient myths and legends as they become tropes in new and classic horror movies or delightful diversions at innocent slumber parties, serving as haunting, didactic, punishing, and entertaining escapes from teenage boredom and adolescent angst. As we experience the amusing yet unsettling connections between the darkest of ancient tales and the fondest of childhood memories, Sinks compels us to reconsider the history and meaning of symbolism and narrative as a transfer of fluid information across culture, time, and space.

An MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Corkey Sinks uses a variety of mediums to unearth, observe, and follow the travel of information, particularly through speech patterns and syntax, wiki sourcing, and the mutation of ancient fairy tales. She is especially interested in the transfer of information from one source to another, and the fluctuating space that exists between those sources, shifting and creating distance through editing processes, new technologies, and living language. Sinks received a B.A. in Media Studies from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands in California. She is a member of the Okay Mountain Gallery and Collective in Austin, Texas and a founding member of the Austin Video Bee, a multimedia collective. She lives and works in Chicago.

Above, left: Corkey Sinks. Death's Head Moth. 2010.

Gallery Details
Modified Arts
407 East Roosevelt Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004-1918
(602) 462-5516
www.modified.org