Deconstructions: Paintings by Marty Mccorkle

DECONSTRUCTIONS
Paintings by Marty McCorkle

DECONSTRUCTIONS
Paintings by Marty McCorkle
Samurai
Oil on Canvas
30 X 22 INCHES
Visit www.corkstudio.com
for more information about and to purchase art works by Marty McCorkle.
Copyright © 2010 by Marty McCorkle

New art, if it’s good, hits you on the
head like a tea tray dropped from a
floating world.
Perhaps it falls from the clumsiness of a
divine icon taking siesta after tea in the clouds,
or from intentional mischief of an iconic diva
perched in Warhol’s studio, but in any case,
good new art kerplunks one on the old coconut
and makes stars circle it in cartoonish fashion;
recovering from the initial gaffah, one knows that
new doors of perceptions are creaking open, and
golly if you can’t get more about this floating
world soon enough.

I’ve painted canvas after canvas to open the
door to that floating world and intent on someday
beaning my fellow art lovers squarely between the

eyes.
When I began to paint in earnest in the late
Male Figure at Pool

Oil on Canvas
26 X 28 INHES
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1990’s, I understood that painting was dead.
“All that could be said in painting has been
said,” they said.
Far from being discouraged by
painting’s autopsy, I felt relief not to have
to approach art seriously, but rather to play,
experiment and bounce rhythms on the
canvas. This is a delightful approach to art,

Leslie Looking at Distant
Shore
Oil on Canvas and if you are into art, or anything for that
14 X 10 INCHES
matter I suspect, you should consider having
fun. One can be sincere, professional and
enthusiastic about art without being serious.
Armed with the certainty that painting
was a goner, off I went with a shovel (a
metaphorical one) and dug up its corpse

for some harmless giggles. And in my
experimental laboratory (studio) I found not
only that painting came alive, but sat up,
Pat on Turquoise Carpet

Oil on Canvas
28 X 36 INCHES

Male Figure Looking Out Window
Oil on Canvas
14 X 20 INCHES

Pat on Circular Rug
Oil on Canvas
30 X 22 INCHES
Reﬂected Figure
Oil on Canvas
44 X 42 INCHES

Pat on Rail
Oil on Canvas
28 X 20 INHES
Twirling Figure
Oil on Canvas
38 X 48 INCHES
Male Figure with Bat

Oil on Canvas
48 X 36 INCHES

Bather Pat on Red Chair
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
36 X 28 INCHES 32 X 26 INCHES

Pat on Circular Bed (detail below)
Oil on Canvas
20 X 48 INCHES

asked for a glass of water and immediately
began to shimmer with life. Painting is
alive and doing cartwheels, thank you, and

shares a contagious enthusiasm for life.
The “Deconstructionism” Ism

An “ism” is an itchy affair, like a sweater
one receives for Christmas. On formal
occasions, one is obliged to wear it,
demonstrating to the aunt who bestowed
this itchy gift that it fits and is highly
cherished. It otherwise resides in the
second drawer of the dresser awaiting
deployment when the aunts return.
Thank goodness that art has broken out
of its monolithic movements packaging and
expresses itself more variously, like a series

of boutiques, more eclectic than it has been
Niccolo’ on Red Trim Chair

Oil on Canvas
29 X 22 INCHES

Momentum of an Obsessive Mind
Oil on Canvas
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Nicollo’ with Green Background
Oil on Canvas
Niccolo’ against Grey Wall
18 X 16 INCHES
Oil on Canvas
30 X 19 INCHES

Suspended Figure Artist Falling Down
Oil on Canvas Oil on Canvas
28 X 20 INCHES 40 X 42 INCHES
Nixon at Great Wall of China

Oil on Canvas
18 X 17 INCHES
Nicollo’ on Red Sofa

Oil on Canvas
19 X 13 INCHES
Pat Holding Hair

Oil on Canvas
34 X 22 INCHES

for some centuries.
I’m sometimes asked how to describe
or classify my art, and a journalist friend

suggests “deconstructive” as a revealing
term. My painting does deconstruct or break
things down, but lyrically, rhythmically,
rather than through cool analysis.
Forms, shapes and colors become
juggly elements in deconstructionism, but
one can extend deconstruction to the sense
of time, space and style. I like the medium
of oil painting because it carries a dusty,
hallowed pedigree, developing ambitions
in the late nineteenth century to depict
more than a flattering realism. Painting
houses the twentieth century artist Pable

Picasso, who would double back to raid
David and Goliath after Caravaggio

Oil on Canvas
48 X 36 INCHES

Pat on Blue Platform
Oil on Canvas
38 X 48 INCHES

Male Figure on Wood Deck
Oil on Canvas
30 X 44 INCHES
Travis and Mirror

Oil on Canvas
22 X 31 INCHES
Male Figure on Aqua Floor
Oil on Canvas
19 X 15 INCHES

the nineteenth century, breaking all
its trove of delicate works with his
violent pastiches and tributes, like a

Viking taking swings in a glassware
gift shop.
Deconstructionism has less to
rebel against in an art world where
anything now goes, but instead
opens up depiction in painting with
an almost baroque flamboyance.
In this approach, painting scrubs
depiction down to essential brush
strokes, harking back to Cezanne,
Figure in Mirror but freely disagrees with that

Oil on Canvas
34 X 48 INCHES granddaddy of all painters by not
sensibly following and reinforcing

contours. Shimmering swaths of solid
color come into play.

Figure on Green Carpet
Oil on Canvas For me, deconstructionism
22 X 36 INCHES
suggests the power of the
Travis with Blue Dotted Line
Oil on Canvas
36 X 24 INCHES
Figure on Hexgon
Oil on Canvas
48 X 34 INCHES
Travis on a Blue Chair

Oil on Canvas
28 X 20 INCHES
Male Figure by Pool

Oil on Canvas
42 X 41 INCHES

brushstroke, the grand sweep of paint,
reminiscent of the Chinese ink paintings on
silk or paper, in which fewer brush strokes

create more energy and tension than many
smaller and fussier strokes would.
I’m not sure why, but partial
transparency of figures helps to suggest
depth or dimension, leaving some objects
ghostly or unfinished, suggestive when
one partially covers one eye when looking
at things, or the sense of a person as
he moves about the room. Living beings
don’t strike me as solid like statues or
photographs. They keep moving about in
time and space, coming and going, casting
depth, creating mood and aging.

I’ll stop here. To speak more in this
vain becomes a bit ethereal, like eating
Esteban Reclining on Pillow

Oil on Canvas
18 X 12 INCHES

air sandwiches. It’s better to look at the
paintings.
About Me
Having lived in California’s San Francisco
Bay Area for 15 years, I now reside with my
spouse, Esteban Sabar, in the Philippines.
For more samples of my painting, visit my
website at www.corkstudio.com or email me
at martymccorkle@yahoo.com.
I am represented by the following art galleries:
Gallery Z
259 Atwells Avenue
Providence RI 02903, USA
Phone: (401) 454-8844
FAX: (401) 751-3295
galleryzprov.com
Ricco Renzo Gallery

GF LRI Design Plaza
210 N. Garcia Street
Bel Air II, Makati
Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas (632) 898.2543
14 X 10 INCHES www.riccorenzo.com

Self Portrait
Oil on Canvas
14 X 11 INCHES
Esteban Sabar
Oil on Canvas
14 X 10 INCHES
Peter L.
Oil on Canvas
18 X 22 INCHES
Esteban Sabar
Oil on Canvas
14 X 10 INCHES

Nancy
Oil on Canvas
19 X 35 INCHES

Curled Figure
Oil on Canvas
40 X 30 INCHES
Sleepwalker
Oil on Canvas
36 X 23 INCHES
Travis Reclining
Oil on Canvas
38 X 28 INCHES

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divine icon taking siesta after tea in the clouds,

or from intentional mischief of an iconic diva

perched in Warhol’s studio, but in any case,

good new art kerplunks one on the old coconut

and makes stars circle it in cartoonish fashion;

recovering from the initial gaffah, one knows that

new doors of perceptions are creaking open, and

golly if you can’t get more about this floating

world soon enough.

door to that floating world and intent on someday

beaning my fellow art lovers squarely between the

When I began to paint in earnest in the late

Male Figure at Pool

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“All that could be said in painting has been

said,” they said.

Far from being discouraged by

painting’s autopsy, I felt relief not to have

to approach art seriously, but rather to play,

experiment and bounce rhythms on the

canvas. This is a delightful approach to art,

fun. One can be sincere, professional and

enthusiastic about art without being serious.

Armed with the certainty that painting

was a goner, off I went with a shovel (a

metaphorical one) and dug up its corpse

experimental laboratory (studio) I found not

only that painting came alive, but sat up,

Pat on Turquoise Carpet

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Male Figure with Bat

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began to shimmer with life. Painting is

alive and doing cartwheels, thank you, and

The “Deconstructionism” Ism

one receives for Christmas. On formal

occasions, one is obliged to wear it,

demonstrating to the aunt who bestowed

this itchy gift that it fits and is highly

cherished. It otherwise resides in the

second drawer of the dresser awaiting

deployment when the aunts return.

Thank goodness that art has broken out

of its monolithic movements packaging and

expresses itself more variously, like a series

Niccolo’ on Red Trim Chair

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Nixon at Great Wall of China

Nicollo’ on Red Sofa

Pat Holding Hair

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I’m sometimes asked how to describe

or classify my art, and a journalist friend

term. My painting does deconstruct or break

things down, but lyrically, rhythmically,

rather than through cool analysis.