Corey Postiglione was born on 1942 and is an American artist, art critic and educator.
15 Facts About Corey Postiglione
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Corey Postiglione is a member of the American Abstract Artists in New York, and known for precise, often minimalist work that "both spans and explores the collective passage from modernism to postmodernism" in contemporary art practice and theory.
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Corey Postiglione has exhibited internationally, at numerous colleges and universities, and at venues such as The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, OK Harris Gallery, and the Hyde Park Art Center.
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Corey Postiglione was honored with retrospective exhibitions at the Evanston Art Center in 2008 and the Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, Illinois in 2010.
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Corey Postiglione's artwork has been reviewed in publications including Artforum, New Art Examiner, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Daily News, and is included in many private and public collections, including the Purdue University Galleries Permanent Collection and the Koehnline Museum of Art Permanent Collection.
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Corey Postiglione is a founding member of the Chicago Art Critics Association and has taught at several Chicago institutions, including Columbia College Chicago, where he was a member of the art department faculty for over 30 years.
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However, Corey Postiglione's sensibility ran counter to the narrative-driven, representational aesthetic of the Chicago Imagists and Hairy Who, which included artists such as Roger Brown and Ed Paschke, and whose work dominated the Chicago art scene from the late 1960s into the 1980s.
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Corey Postiglione has moved beyond canvas and paper in his five Population exhibitions, producing site-specific paintings and interactive and collaborative installations that address demographic growth and the attendant issues of interdependence, scarcity and conflict.
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Corey Postiglione has worked as an art critic for more than three decades, making numerous contributions to the New Art Examiner, Artforum, Dialogue, and C Magazine.
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Corey Postiglione's written work includes features on Daniel Buren, Ed Paschke, Martin Puryear and Alexander Calder, and exhibit reviews of Julia Fish, Michiko Itatani, Susan Michod, Dan Peterman, and Frank Stella, among many.
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Corey Postiglione has written catalogue essays for numerous artists, including Tim Anderson, Alexandra Domowska, James Juszczyk, Terrence Karpowicz, Arthur Lerner, and John Phillips.
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Corey Postiglione has been an active curator of painting, drawing and sculpture exhibitions, in Chicago and nationally.
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Corey Postiglione has appeared publicly in a wide range of art forums, lectures and symposia.
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Corey Postiglione taught art at several higher learning institutions in Chicago in the 1970s, including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois in Chicago and Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Corey Postiglione was tenured in 1996, and in 2014, retired as professor emeritus.