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ABOUT ME
Corvus Dempsey’s practice centers around the meeting point between story and reality. Their works utilize art history and western religious canon to build a mythology and religious canon unique to themself, stemming from the Turning Wheel—a set of stories developed between Gabrielle Sawdo and themself. Dempsey is a painter living and working in Gainesville, Florida, and is currently pursuing their BFA at the University of Florida. Their work has been included in two exhibitions thus far: The Juried Student Exhibition at the University of Florida, curated by Jennifer Inacio in 2024, and the Edgar Allan Poe Exhibition in Orlando, FL, in 2023.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make large-scale paintings and installations that depict mystical and surrealist scenes of a narrative surrounding a constructed world born from a collaboration between myself and my friend, author Gabrielle Sawdo. These works build upon that world through the use of intense contrast, metallic colors, and visceral texture to evoke the feeling of magic and fantasy.
I use a variety of materials in my art, from oil and acrylic paint to organic and inorganic found objects such as moss, bone, metal, etc. With a combination of intuitive and ritual based practices, I alternate between adding or tearing away, carving and distressing the surface of the works as they develop layer by layer. The result is an evolving piece.
On a fundamental level, it is my love of the Turning Wheel that fuels these works. The Turning Wheel, the stories born from Sawdo’s and my collective love for this world being built, drive and feed the works I create, and what they ultimately become. Its unique mythology, its characters and histories, form the foundation of my works, and are something I strive to share with as wide of an audience as possible. Welcome to the world of Terrah. The world of the turning wheel.
Corvus Dempsey’s practice centers around the meeting point between story and reality. Their works utilize art history and western religious canon to build a mythology and religious canon unique to themself, stemming from the Turning Wheel—a set of stories developed between Gabrielle Sawdo and themself. Dempsey is a painter living and working in Gainesville, Florida, and is currently pursuing their BFA at the University of Florida. Their work has been included in two exhibitions thus far: The Juried Student Exhibition at the University of Florida, curated by Jennifer Inacio in 2024, and the Edgar Allan Poe Exhibition in Orlando, FL, in 2023.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make large-scale paintings and installations that depict mystical and surrealist scenes of a narrative surrounding a constructed world born from a collaboration between myself and my friend, author Gabrielle Sawdo. These works build upon that world through the use of intense contrast, metallic colors, and visceral texture to evoke the feeling of magic and fantasy.
I use a variety of materials in my art, from oil and acrylic paint to organic and inorganic found objects such as moss, bone, metal, etc. With a combination of intuitive and ritual based practices, I alternate between adding or tearing away, carving and distressing the surface of the works as they develop layer by layer. The result is an evolving piece.
On a fundamental level, it is my love of the Turning Wheel that fuels these works. The Turning Wheel, the stories born from Sawdo’s and my collective love for this world being built, drive and feed the works I create, and what they ultimately become. Its unique mythology, its characters and histories, form the foundation of my works, and are something I strive to share with as wide of an audience as possible. Welcome to the world of Terrah. The world of the turning wheel.