Join us for a conversation with Michigan artists Jonathan Korotko and Celine Browning. Korotko and Browning are both among this year's Good Hart Artist Residency resident artists. We'll talk with them about their individual creative work, as well as what they've been up to for their Stay in Place Artist Residency.
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About the Artists
Céline Browning
Céline Browning is an artist, art writer, and educator currently based in Michigan and Ohio. Céline began her career in metalsmithing and fibers, focusing on the conceptual potential of functional objects. While the core of her creative work is conceptually based sculpture, she has also worked in wearables, sound installation, and augmented reality. Open engagement with social and political issues is a consistent part of Céline’s approach to creating meaningful works of art, and her studio work is specifically engaged in an active exploration of power dynamics in American culture. Many of her recent projects are moored in a sense of local history, using objects and symbols as portraits of communities. Her work has been exhibited extensively, most notably through a three-year traveling group exhibition organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum (2017-2020), a solo show at Northwestern University (2019), as well as group shows at the Stony Island Arts Bank (2018) and the Pinakothek Der Moderne in Munich (2014). In the fall of 2019, she was named a finalist in the Miami University Young Sculptors Competition for the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award. She is currently an Affiliate Professor of Art at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
Jonathan Korotko
Jonathan Korotko is an artist who works with fiber in sculptural form. He visually and critically investigates domestic interiors in terms of gendered power dynamics. Working with yarn and string, Korotko wraps objects and creates new skins for them, cloaking and distorting the often sexualized associations of the original. Playful hand-rendered and applied surfaces create alternative imaginations of opulence and theatricality. He wants people to think about the significance of ornamentation and decoration as part of political mobilization in feminist and queer history. He received his MFA in Printmedia at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and has exhibited across the United States as well as internationally. Jonathan has been an artist-in-residence at Ox-Bow School of Art and Franconia Sculpture Park, and will be a resident at PlySpace, The Studios at MASS MoCA, and Good Hart Artist Residency in 2020.
About Good Hart Artist Residency
The Good Hart Artist Residency located in Good Hart, Michigan, offers 2-3 week residencies to dedicated visual artists and writers. GHAR works in partnership with several local nonprofit organizations to connect visiting artists and writers with the community in the Emmet County area. Find out more.
