Corbett Fogue
Knoxville, Tennessee
Artist
Corbett Fogue is a photographer and conceptual artist whose interdisciplinary practice reaches across an array of mediums and modes of artistic expression. His work poetically explores mortality and transcendence by focusing on the act of breathing as a unifying human action. In one series, Fogue spoke his father’s last words while facing unexposed photographic paper. The resulting image is a stunningly stark starscape formed by their shared DNA transferred to the silver gelatin paper via his breath. In a sculptural piece, two machines simulate the repeating breath cycle with a humidifier rhythmically releasing a puff of moist air just in time for a dehumidifier to inhale. Originally from Central Iowa, Fogue has exhibited in over forty exhibitions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Greece, Israel, and South Korea. He earned his MFA from the University of South Florida
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