C o r r i n e Co l a r u s s o
Born: Boston, Massachusetts
Awards and Grants
2024 Painting Award, Gathered Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA.
2009 Artadia Finalist Atlanta,The Fund for Art and Dialog
2006 Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome.
1994 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, Painting.
1992 Mellon Foundation Faculty Enrichment Grant, Atlanta College of Art.
1990 Georgia Council For The Arts; Individual Artists Grant.
1982 National Endowment for the Arts; Individual Artists Grant.
Artist-in -Residence, University of Georgia,
Studies Abroad Program; Cortona, Italy.
Artists Fellowship, Ossabaw Island Project; Ossabaw Island, Georgia.
1979 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1978 Fulbright-Hayes Research and Travel Grant; India and Nepal.
1977 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Every Leaf a Shelter, {Poem 88} Gallery, March 7 - April 18, 2020.
2019 Twilight Paintings, Spotlight Exhibition, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
August 1 2019 - February 7, 2020
2018 Light and Weather, Poem {88} Gallery, Atlanta, Ga January 13- February 24.
2017 Shaking the Twilight, Anne Daigh LTD Gallery Tangerine,
Nashville Tennessee, October 19 through January 4, 2018.
2016 Stirred Fiction, University of Georgia,
College of Environment and Design,Athens, Georgia.
2014 Magic Gold, Full Sun, Newport Museum of Art, Newport, Rhode Island.
2013 The Sunrise Show, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia.
2011 Shaggy Land, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
2007 Night, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
2004 Both Worlds, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 Swamp Luster, Marathon of Midnights
Art in Focus, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
2002 Small Consolations, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
2001 Corrine Colarusso, Paintings and Drawings,
Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia.
2000 Corrine Colarusso, Drawings, The Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia.
In the Dark of The Day, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, No.Carolina.
1997 Free Wandering, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
1995 A Glimpse of Radiant Space, Edith Lambert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1993 Recent Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
1991 Recent Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Goergia.
1989 New Work, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
1981 The Straits Between Me and You for the Swimmer in Each of Us,
The Atlanta Artworkers Coalition, Atlanta, Georgia.
1978 Screens, Veils, and Other Romantic Instants,
Oglethorpe University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Gathered, Artists Choose Artists, MOCA, Atlanta, Georgia
2022 Coined in the South, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.
2022 Gathered, Artists Choose Artists, MOCA, Atlanta , GA.
2017 Southern Hospitality, prints from Rolling Stone Press, Breneau College, Georgia.
2017 Gathered, Artists Choose Artists, MOCA, Atlanta, GA.
2016 Gathered, Artists Choose Artists, MOCA, Atlanta, GA.
2011 Drawing Connections, Chastain Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Things with Wings, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island.
2009-10 Painters’ Reel, Contemporary Painting in Georgia, a traveling exhibition.
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia, January 31- April 19, 2009.
Jepson Center for Contemporary Art, Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia,
Feb.12,2010 - May 16, 2010
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. June 19 – September 26, 2010.
2010 ONWARD, curated by Fay Gold for Besherat Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 New American Paintings, Exhibitions in Print, Ron Platt, Curator
Botanicals , Museum of Arts and Sciences. Macon, Georgia.
Natural Studies, Swan Coach House, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
2006 Art in Embassies Program. United States Embassy, Aman, Jordan,
United States Embassy, Canberra, Australia.
2001 Fantastica, Flora and Fauna, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2000 Moved by the Spirit, Brenau University Art Gallery, Gainesville, Georgia.
LaGrange National XXI Biennial, Chatahoochee Valley Art Museum.
1998 Six Artists of Atlanta, Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Florida.
1996 Greenspace, The work of four Artists, a traveling exhibition, Cultural Olympiad.
Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC.,
University of Florida Art Gallery, Gainesville, Florida.
1993 Painting National, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee.
The November Show, Hastings Feed and Seed Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
Three Painters, Lamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia.
1991 Landscape Paintings, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York.
International Art Exposition, Fay Gold Gallery @ London , England.
Gardens, Real and Imagined, Atlanta College of Art Gallery. Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 The Mediated Landscape, Auburn University Art Gallery, Auburn, Alabama.
1988 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama.
5 Fold, the work of 5 artists, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S. Carolina.
1982 Artists in Georgia, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Paintings, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
1980 Artists in Georgia, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1979 Personal Statements, SECCA, Winston-Salem, No. Carolina.
Works on Paper, Vick of Fischbach Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Selected Bibliography
2017 Elaine Slayton Akin, Shaking the Twilight, New Work by Corrine Colarusso,
Nashville Arts Magazine.
2016 Rebecca Brantley, Nature Gone Wild, Corrine Colarusso’s Stirred Fictions, Burnaway.
2014 Suzanne Volmer, Magic Gold Full Sun, Artscope Magazine.
2011 Jerry Cullum, Review, Corrine Colarusso, Truly Ecstatic, ARTSCriticATL.com
2009 Eric O’Dell, Corrine Colarusso, Essay for, Painters’Reel,
Contemporary Painting in Georgia.
2000 Sarah Schroth, Magic Eyes, Essay for the exhibition,
Corrine Colarusso, Paintings and Drawings,
The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia.
Kate Dobbs Arail, Who’s a Painting For?,Review, Feb.16, 2000,
The Independent Weekly, Durham, NC.
Cathy Byrd, Review, Drawings, The Contemporary,
Atlanta Creative Loafing, September 23, 2000.
Max Halperin, Review, The News & Observer, February 18, 2000, Raleigh, NC.
1997 Philip Auslander, Free Wandering Review, Art Papers, May/June.
Jerry Cullem, Free Wandering, Review,
The Atlanta Journal Constitution, January 24, 1997.
1993 Jan Avgikos, Sixty-six ways to Call Your Lover, Catalogue essay.
Kay Kallos, Corrine Colarusso at Fay Gold Gallery, Art Papers, July.
Dr.Richard Grusin, Postmodern Romanticism:
Landscape Aesthetics and Environmentalism in America
Peter Frank, Greenspace, Nature as Contruct,
Dr. Cynthia Kristen-Graham, GreenSpace, the Representation of Nature
and the Nature of Representation
Rebecca Dimling, GreenSpace, Review, Art Papers. July Issue.
1992 Gudmund Vigtel, Corrine Colarusso, 100 Years of Painting in Georgia.
Mark Miller Graham, Corrine Colarusso at Fay Gold Gallery,
Art Papers, September Issue.
Catherine Fox, Notable Show, Review, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, May ,3.
Catherine Fox, Gardens Real and Imagined, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution,
October, 25.
1989 Glenn Harper, Corrine Colarusso, Recent Paintings, Catalogue Essay.
Jerry Cullem, Corrine Colarusso at Fay Gold, Review, Art Papers, November.
Teaching Experience
1975-96 The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, (now SCAD). Received tenure in 1982. Associate Professor of Painting, Drawing and Design. At various times during my 21 years at the Atlanta College of Art, I served on numerous faculty and administrative search committees and other committees that support the academic life of the college. Some years, in addition to teaching, I served as Head of the Foundation Design Program and as Head of the Painting department. From 1975-1981 created the Visiting Artist Program which was extensive and brought exceptional artists and curators to the college. A partial list includes, Vito Acconci, Judy Pfaff, Marcia Tucker, Wayne Thiebaud, Dennis Oppenhiem, May Stevens, William Wegman, Lucas Samaras, Janet Fish, Joan Semmel among others.
1974-75 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Graduate Teaching Assitanships.
Professional Service
2020 Short Video, as part of the Artists in their Studios, during the pandemic, for the HIgh Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga.
2009 Guest Curator for A Painters’ Reel, Contemporary Painting in Georgia, Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Macon, Georgia, traveling to Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.
1996 Juror for South Cobb National Exhibition. Mabel House, Atlanta, Georgia.
1995 Panel member: Close Encounters: Gallery Ethics and Professional Practices,
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
Summer Seminar Participant, Topics in Multicultural Studies, Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, Georgia.
Summer Seminar participant, Topics in Multicultural Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
1991 Gallery talk, Gardens Real and Imagined, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Ga.
The Education of Painters, A Symposium and National Conference,
The Union of Independent Colleges of Art, New York, New York.
Panel Member, Discussion Leader and Contributor to Published Report.
Education
1975 Tyler School of Art of Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. F. A., Painting.
1973 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, B. F. A., Painting.
1972 Yale University Fellowship, Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, Connecticut.