Artist:
Tarrence Corbin
Title:
Serious Play
Date:
2002
Description:
Tarrence Corbin's 1992 painting, "Serious Play," reaches nearly six feet in height and width. This piece is representative of his signature style: enormous works with explosions of bright colors featuring larger-than-life ribbons of color and floating geometric shapes. The vivid yellows, blues, and reds with accents of green, white, and orange, form a slew of overlapping and chaotic but identifiable geometric shapes. Cylinders, flat circles, spheres, and a range of other prisms point the viewer's eye in a multitude of directions, creating a sense of movement and wonder at the innumerable figures in the painting and of listening to music through the synesthetic color and form.
"Serious Play" is hanging in the University House's Great Room.
Tarrence Corbin was born in 1946 and received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1975. He has taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio; the University of Cincinnati, Ohio; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; and Fayetteville University, N.C. The Driskell Center owns two large paintings by Corbin.
"Serious Play" is hanging in the University House's Great Room.
Tarrence Corbin was born in 1946 and received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1975. He has taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio; the University of Cincinnati, Ohio; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; and Fayetteville University, N.C. The Driskell Center owns two large paintings by Corbin.
Technique:
Acrylic Painting
Credit Line:
Gift of Ms. Lisa Phillips Beysiegel
Legal Status:
© Lisa Phillips Beysiegel and Dennis K. Harrington, trustee, 2010
Photography by Greg Staley, 2017
Photography by Greg Staley, 2017
Object ID:
2010.09.001
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