COREY GOERING advertisements artist   websites: Receiver Gallery Cannonball Press

TROPHY

In 1973, Corey Goering was born into the peculiar world that is small town middle America. A few slow years and a conservative upbringing later, he found himself studying printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he gained a good firm grasp on aesthetics, and a pretentious art school attitude while still hanging on to a portion of the small town values he acquired as a child.

After school in 1997, he became a member of MACHISMO, a four man artists group with whom he has done many collaborations, including gallery shows, an attempt at boxing as performance, and various other costumed pieces of mayhem. Over the past few years he has found himself surprisingly happy, placed in a little old house with a great big yard in a suburb of Kansas City, where he has his studio and lives with his wife, daughter, son, and an adopted mid-town alley cat.

In his studio Corey scans image after image, taking from his vast archive of flea market acquired material. Wrestling and metal magazines, old children's books, and a six inch thick hardware catalog are just a few of the sources that have found there pages reassigned. With a little satire and a lot of color he gives these images a soapbox to commentate on everything from his little slice of life in the bible belt, to current affairs, and the ridiculous nature of the popular culture he's been lovingly afflicted by, from birth to present.

When he's not sculpting foam for a specialized fabrication company or navigating his daughter and his son through the trials of life, he is continuing to ponder his website and work on a new body of work.