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It’s all about the journey in the group show ‘Thoroughfare’
Spalding Nix Fine Art features four diverse artists mixing calm and chaos.
By Felicia Feaster – For the AJC
Aug 1, 2023
Exhibit THOROUGHFARE examines pathways between spiritual and physical worlds at Spalding Nix Fine Art
City Lights Staff | WABE August 18th, 2023
A ‘thoroughfare’ is a road or path that forms a route between two places. The new exhibition, THOROUGHFARE, speaks to the pathways and connections forming routes between the spirit world and the physical world and from one consciousness to another.
Review: Sculptor Corrina Sephora’s retrospective sails on rich boat symbolism
JERRY CULLUM·APRIL 10, 2023
Early in Corrina Sephora’s career, she accepted a mentor’s challenge to continue exploring metaphors and imagery of boats. This expanded to the topic of physical migration, then spiritual journeys, and finally to the realization that “we’re all in the same boat.” Lately, the boat has expanded to include the entire universe.
‘Speaking of the Arts:’ Corrina Sephora
Jerry Siegel x October 21, 2021
Corrina Sephora is a metal sculptor and mixed-media artist specializing in blacksmithing. She explores emotion, memory and ritual with what she calls “repetitious imagery,” prominently featuring trees, ladders and nautical and celestial motifs.
Review: “Out of The Ordinary” at Spalding Nix Fine Art is beautiful and unsettling
Jerry Cullum x August 25, 2021
Spalding Nix Fine Art has promoted its “Out of the Ordinary” exhibition, on view through September 10, in terms of the Gestalt psychology of perception and other things that relate to the act of seeing. But what makes the show sometimes delightful and occasionally unsettling involves a great deal more than that.
In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber
Mark Jenkins x August 16, 2019
'Blood of the Earth' exhibit begins at ArtsXchange
Olivia LaBorde x June 7, 2019
Peachy Keen Podcast Episode 22: Corrina Sephora - Turning Midnight Dreams into Reality
Vivian Liddell x February 4, 2019
Artist Corrina Sephora moved to Atlanta in the mid 90s after receiving her BFA in Sculpture and Metalsmithing from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and has stayed on to become an integral player in the Atlanta arts community, establishing a prosperous artistic practice in metal and other media.
After her mother’s death, a successful Atlanta metalworker is exploring her softer side
Kate Abney x January 8, 2019
For the past 20 years, Corrina Sephora’s name has been synonymous with metal, from numerous private commissions of imaginative stair railings and custom furniture to significant public monuments like Nautilus Passage at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. But when the artist’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, ultimately succumbing to the disease in late 2017, Sephora, a recent artist-in-residence at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Science in northeast Georgia, wondered: Had she done everything she wanted to do? Everything she could do?
Torpy at Large: Swords to plowshares, AR-15 to flowers
Bill Torpy x March 14, 2018
Maybe he simply outgrew the weapon. Or his politics shifted. Perhaps it was “things gotta change and it must start with me.”
Whatever the case, an Atlanta man and war veteran named Chris Purdy went on his neighborhood Nextdoor site recently to say he was disposing of his AR-15 and wanted to make a statement doing it.
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Soon, Purdy was in touch with Atlanta artist Corrina Sephora, a modern-day blacksmith performing all sorts of innovations with metals.
CHAI STYLE: Art + Metal + Fire
Visit the South Side home and studio of Corrina Sephora, an artistic phenom who thinks big.
By MARCIA CALLER JAFFE
October 27, 2022, 2:43 pm
Corrina Sephora (Mensoff) is as mysterious and exotically rebellious as her name implies. With local Judaic masterpieces and a wild variety of media, this artistic free-thinking maverick remarked, “I don’t conform to an archaic model of the constraints of what women’s work could or should be, since I’m working with metal, welding, blacksmithing and building large-scale sculptures. I have a quiet spiritual side that prefers to walk in the woods, or at the ocean and spend time in my studio.”
New public sculpture aims to represent the past, present and future of Freeport Arts Plaza
FROM NEWS REPORTS September 28, 2021
FREEPORT — Atlanta-based artist Corrina Sephora will install her site-specific sculpture, "Bridge Beyond Time: Past, Present and Future" on Wednesday in the Freeport Arts Plaza.
The installation represents the “meaningful journey of inclusion” that the museum, plaza and community have traveled over time, Sephora said in a news release from the Freeport Art Museum.
Review: History, nature collide fantastically in “The Four Elements”
Jerry Cullum x June 4, 2021
The Four Elements, the subject of a group exhibition at the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art through June 20, were long regarded as the fundamental building blocks of matter in much of the ancient Eurasian world, although immaterial voidness was added to fire, water, earth and air in India, and cultures under the influence of one Chinese system added wood and replaced air with metal.
East City Artnotes: America Is… at Touchstone Gallery
Eric Hope x August 13, 2019
…Corrina Sephora skillfully speak to the emotional tensions underscoring notions of political and social partisanship, highlighting common threads of anxiety that cross party lines.
Metalist Corrina Sephora turns guns into art in Blood of the Earth at Sinclair Gallery
ARTSATL Staff x May 31, 2019
Acclaimed metal artist and painter Corrina Sephora explores communal loss and transformation in Blood of the Earth, opening Saturday at East Point’s Sinclair Gallery. In it, she focuses on turning guns into works of art.
ArtsAtl staff x January 24, 2019
In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 that left 17 students and staff members dead, two Atlanta artists independently began to focus on creating art that spoke to the issues of guns and gun violence and mass shootings.
Metal Artist Corrina Sephora Explores Meditations Of Midnight Dreaming
Jerry Cullum x January 9, 2019
The title of Corrina Sephora’s full-gallery installation Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Universe implies a passage from the mythic depths to the farthest reaches of the highest, and the title is accurate. Inspired by experiences following the death of her mother, the show (which opens at Mason Fine Art on Thursday, January 10) is a symbolic journey that begins at the cellular level and ends at the edge of an imagined cosmos.
BOBA buzz: New sculptures color Tuscawilla
Dave Schlenker x February 14, 2018
Just in time for spring, Tuscawilla Park is celebrating a new crop of sculptures this week.
Meet Corrina Sephora of Corrina Sephora Studio
November 7, 2017
Today we’d like to introduce you to Corrina Sephora.
Review: Corrina Sephora transmutes family odyssey into universal symbols, at Gallery 72
Jerry Cullum x June 17, 2015
Corrina Sephora’s Emergence from the Waters, at Gallery 72 through July 9, is more than a retrospective of the Atlanta metal artist’s sculpture, painting and video. Rather, it forms a unified body of personal symbolism based on family history.
Photo by Terrell Clark
Artist Corrina Sephora embraces the chaotic in “Out of the Ordinary” exhibit
Gail O’Neill x July 22, 2021
When Out of the Ordinary, Flotilla opens at Spalding Nix Fine Art Gallery this Friday (through September 10), the exhibition will give visitors a chance to contemplate recurring motifs of ladders, boats, nets, trees and nautical celestial images that have dominated the metal sculptures, paintings and installations of Corrina Sephora for nearly 25 years.
Photo by Tom Mack
Mary Byrd gallery showcases contemporary art
Tom Mack x November 20, 2020
A welcome addition to the cultural life of the Central Savannah River Area has been the establishment of the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art on the Summerville campus of Augusta University. Shannon Morris, the gallery’s innovative and enterprising director, has been bringing to our area since 2016 the work of some of the most exciting professional artists active today.
Today Maybe Forever Podcast: In Space - Corrina Sephora
Floyd Hall x June 2019
Metal Artist Corrina Sephora talks about putting together her latest exhibition, “Blood of the Earth”, a group show that focuses on the myriad of ways that people interact with guns in their daily lives. Sephora also shares some perspective on what led her to this work, as well as the artists whose work helps inform the exhibition.
At Mason Fine Art, Corrina Sephora Reflects On Life By Looking To The Heavens
Anna Nelson-Daniel x February 13, 2019
Some artists create art as a way of self-reflection. The process becomes a pursuit of creative fulfillment. Atlanta-based artist Corrina Sephora sees her work as a reflection of life experiences. In Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Universe, at Mason Fine Art through February 16, Sephora shares 19 recent works that vary in medium but are cohesive in theme.
Reverend Bernice King, Lead to Life and Students from Parkland Shooting to Hold 'Guns to Shovels' Ceremony on 50th Anniversary
April 4, 2018
Reverend Bernice King, the youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, and Chief Executive Officer of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, GA, will join a live public ceremony organized by the project Lead to Life: A People's Alchemy for Regeneration, during which weapons will be melted down and transformed into garden tools and art pieces.
New sculpture pieces coming to Tuscawilla Park
Susan Smiley-Height x January 3, 2018
As yet one more indicator that the arts scene continues to thrive and grow in Marion County, the city of Ocala recently announced the 10 sculptors and works that will be showcased in the 2018-2019 Ocala Outdoor Sculpture Competition.
Corrina Sephora Explores Water Through Metal In Solo Exhibition
Gabbie Watts x July 26, 2017
Corrina Sephora started her tutelage in metalworking before most kids are allowed to light a match. Now, she’s an acclaimed artist and dedicated teacher and mentor to the next generation of metalworkers.
Copper, Bronze and Steel: Corrina Sephora Mensoff builds a gate for a Northside Mansion
Terry Kearns x January 23, 2011
I walked all the way to the back, right up to Corrina to ask her, "Where's that new work your were talking about."
She pointed back over my shoulder to this gate, nearly finished, bound for a north Atlanta Mansion. It's a one-of-a-kind organic "phantasmagorie."
Art review: Two artists in ‘Voyages Unforeseen’ work together and apart
Felicia Feaster x April 17, 2017
“Voyages Unforeseen” at Kibbee Gallery in Poncey-Highland is a juxtaposition of two Atlanta-based artists who have worked together before, Corrina Sephora Mensoff and Susan Ker-Seymer. In some instances, the two artists’ objectives and attitudes mesh, but occasionally they seem like strangers in a shared waiting room — coexisting but not connecting.