Self-Portrait Bust , 2024
My name is Nicole Corvi, 23 year-old creative born and living in New Jersey. I am a transfer student at NJCU working towards my B.F.A in ceramic art. As an artist, my first love was in analog photography, picking up my first film camera at age 13. It was not until enrollment in a high-school ceramics course in 2016 that my life changed forever; I have been working with clay consistently ever since. I still toggle between both crafts, and would love to find a way to intertwine both; but at the end of the day, my heart lies with clay. In addition to being a student, I serve as an instructor for weekly wheel-throwing ceramics classes targeting all experience levels.
Growing up on the internet, someone who has inspired my art since childhood is online presented photographer/musician Christian Novelli. If it were not for his melancholy lyricism and rather odd eye for photography, it is hard to say I would have ever explored my own personal style. I tend to make a lot of work inadvertently revolving around the reality of mental health struggles; more specifically, depression. My artwork challenges the romanticization of heartbreak; the comfort found in sadness; the elegance in dishevelment. I would compare my intentions to how people may find reassurance in sad music or old photographs. This can be seen in my ceramic work through the sculptural additives, textual elements, and untraditional glazing techniques.
Top to bottom:
Pyromania / Stoneware / 2024
Lola / Stoneware / 2024
I Hope I Don't Feel This Way Forever / Stoneware / 2023
'Membas / 35mm / 2020
Face #9 / Stoneware / 2024
Cards at Twin / 35mm / 2019
Vulture / 35mm / 2019
Face #6 + Face #7 / Stoneware / 2024
Susan Sontag quotes:
"Images which idealize (like most fashion and animal photography) are no less aggressive than work which makes a virtue of plainness (like class pictures, still lifes of the bleaker sort, and mug shots). There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
Every single use of the art we make is affective and worthy of notion. As long as there is passion and reason behind what is being made, it counts as creation.
"To collect photographs is to collect the world."
Although Sontag narrows it down to photography, I adore this statement she makes about how important the collection of art is. Art is everywhere around us; the more we have it, the more of the world we experience.
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