LAEL CORBIN
08/09 San Diego Art Prize Recipient: Emerging Artist

Lael Corbin is a San Diego based artist. His work has taken the form of installation, individual sculptures and photography. He received his MFA in sculpture from San Diego State University in 2007. Currently he teaches drawing, design and photography in the Department of Art and Design at Point Loma Nazarene University, as well as overseeing their workshops and facilities.

In August 2007 Lael was selected for the San Diego Art Prize as an emerging artist.

Current Exhibit: RESEARCH
Featuring Works by San Diego Art Prize Recipients, Roman de Salvo and Lael Corbin

January 26 - April 19, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 26th from 7pm-9pm
Location: 628 L Street, San Diego
For More Information: http://lstreetfineart.com

Artist Statement: "Stepping into the unfamiliar is an engaging experience, as we often do not have any reference for understanding the purpose or meaning of objects and processes that we may find there. Searching for a framework by which to measure or compare this experience may serve to define it, but may fail to express the way it made us feel, or what it was like to physically stand within it.""In these works, geology, biology, manufacturing processes, and other concrete frameworks of understanding blend together with dreamlike imagery, fragments of information, memory and competing timelines. These are objects and processes that are familiar in many ways, but much of the normal context has been stripped away, and information strategically omitted, forcing us to question how these forms fit into our larger consciousness."

Exhibitions

2007

Select Mode - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Oma Regional 5 - Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside

San Diego Art Prize: New Contemporaries - Simayspace, 840 G Street, San Diego

Latitude - Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University (Solo)

2006

Latitude - Keller Gallery, Point Loma Nazarene University (Solo)

Production - Jackson Gallery. San Diego State University

2005

Faculty Exhibition - Keller Gallery, Point Loma Nazarene University

Coded Messages - Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University

4th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition - Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University

UCSDSU: Chatter Graduate Gallery - Graduate Gallery, University of Califonia, San Diego

2004

Scale, Diversity, Ambition - Art Produce Gallery, 3139 University Ave, San Diego

Full Service - Jackson Gallery, San Diego State University

3rd Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition - Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University

2003

Disclosed - Flor Y Canto Gallery, San Diego State University