Mary Corse was born on 1945 and is an American artist who lives and works in Topanga, California.
13 Facts About Mary Corse
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Mary Corse is often associated with the male-dominated Light and Space art movement of the 1960s, although her role has only been fully recognized in recent years.
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Mary Corse is best known for her experimentation with radiant surfaces in minimalist painting, incorporating materials that reflect light such as glass microspheres.
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Mary Corse initially attended University of California, Santa Barbara starting in 1963.
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In 1966, Mary Corse started a series of works that encased fluorescent bulbs in Plexiglas boxes.
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In 1968, Mary Corse became interested in attempting to move these light boxes away from the wall without cords, necessitating the use of a Tesla coil, which supports wireless electricity.
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Mary Corse completed courses in quantum physics at the University of Southern California in order to earn certification to handle large Tesla coils for these works.
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Mary Corse moved from Downtown Los Angeles to Topanga Canyon in 1970 after the birth of her first child.
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Mary Corse returned again to the White Light Series - over her decades-long career Mary Corse experimented with different compositional formats, scales, forms, and colors within the series.
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Art works by Corse are held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dia Art Foundation; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; The Seattle Art Museum; Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin; Whitney Museum of American Art; among others.
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Mary Corse's image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.
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Mary Corse was formerly represented by ACE Gallery in Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin in New York.
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In July 2018, it was reported that Mary Corse would be represented by Pace Gallery in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Seoul, and in December 2018, Pace announced their expanded representation of Mary Corse to New York as well.