About the Exhibit

Carolyn Corbett has a varied background in the arts: literature, poetry, drama, visual art, and cinema. Her current ‘upcycled’ print collection, titled VASTUS, was created in the Printmaking Studio at the Center. VASTUS is a series of monoprints using water-soluble inks, found natural objects, discarded items such as net bags for potatoes and avocados, plastic packaging, paper bags, and other random materials.

“I love making monoprints with things I find when walking,” Corbett said. A runover pinecone, a strip of plastic blowing in the wind, tin foil, a tangle of trembling weeds, or a strand of yarn slithering across the Safeway parking lot – are all boundless creative art materials that may catch her eye.

“For me, these scraps are living beings,” Corbett continued, “anomalies of the sublime, bursting with life – with quantum possibility.”

VASTUS will open at a shared reception at the Center as they host the April Sonoma Art Walk on Thursday, April 3rd from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Also celebrating an opening that night is “Barbies, Kens, & Friends” in Gallery 212, part of the Trashion Fashion month of events at Sonoma Community Center. Both will close with a celebration at the “Trash Bash,” a free community celebration to mark the end Trashion Fashion season.

The Causeway Gallery at the Center is open from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free, and VASTUS by Carolyn Corbett will be on view through Saturday, April 26th. For more information, go to sonomacommunitycenter.org or call 707-938-4626. To preview some of Corbett’s other works, visit her website: www.corbettdomain.com.

Carolyn Corbett

Carolyn Corbett has an MFA in film and television from USC and an MFA in acting from NYU. When she is not writing, Corbett is making visual work in photographs, etchings, collage, and of course, monotype printmaking.

Corbett is a lover of the things we sometimes forget to see. Poet William Blake said that he could see a world in a grain of sand. “I feel this too. I always have. What if the things we perceive as worthless and disposable contain whole universes?”

www.corbettdomain.com