Wright Auction

GUY C. CORRIERO is a versatile artist whose practice encompasses sculpture and painting. His sculptural works are characterized by aggressively hand-manipulated and fired clay, resulting in dense glazing and saturated colors. Navigating the realm between abstraction and figuration, these works evoke landscapes and the individuals he has encountered, observed, and committed to memory. These captivating sculptures lack distinct front, back, or sides, blurring boundaries and inviting viewers to engage with them from all angles.

Corriero earned both his BFA and MFA from the School of the Visual Arts. Since the early 1990s, his work has been showcased in exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Notably, he recently held a solo exhibition at Junior Projects in New York City, further solidifying his presence in the contemporary art scene.

If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make. 

Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.