Caitlin Coreris makes large-scale oil paintings in which architecture and music operate not as metaphor but as structural principle. Her paintings are architectural abstractions built through the logic of music and spatial rhythm. The surfaces hold geometric and biomorphic forces in permanent tension, simultaneously declared and atmospheric, structured and alive. Coreris was raised inside a hand-built rhombic triacontahedron designed by her architect father and filled with the sound of her cellist mother. Light entered through form. Music organized space. This was not metaphor, it was the condition of her earliest experience and remains the condition of her paintings.
Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, she returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where her work entered the collection of the SFMOMA Artists Gallery. Her influences run from the chromatic expansions of Matisse and Diebenkorn to the biomorphic inventions of Miró — painters for whom color and form are structural.
Coreris begins each painting by building chromatic grounds through accumulated layers of color that establish mood and space before drawing. Structure emerges from sensation. Figural elements subtly press through the geometry and reframe what surrounds them. The paintings balance areas that are active, compressed, and open; there are moments of stillness within movement, structure and flow, sound and silence. Instead of static images, Coreris’ paintings are ongoing perceptual events.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014-2021 SFMOMA Artist Gallery Collection, San Francisco, CA
2017 Neon Flora, Avenue 64, Emeryville, CA
2012 Looking In, Open Artist Studio, East Providence, RI
2010 Beneath The Surface, Artist Alley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 35th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Juror’s Include: Rory Padeken, curator San Jose Museum of Art
2019 33rd Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2018 32nd Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2017 31st Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2016 30th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2015 29th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2014 28th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
2011 Chabot Gallery, Providence, RI “Creating Energy”
Juror’s Include: Harel Kedem, Senior Critic for RISD
2010 24th Emeryville Art Exhibition, Emeryville, CA
Juror’s Include: Steve Pon of SF MOMA Artist Gallery; Mina Dresden of the Mina Dresden Gallery
2010 Mina Dresden Gallery – San Francisco, CA “One night Stand”
2009 23rd Emeryville Art Exhibition – Emeryville, CA
2008 One Night Stand, Mina Dresden Gallery – San Francisco, CA
2008 Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA,“RISD California Alumni Biennial
Juror: Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator Oakland Museum of California
2007 22nd Emeryville Art Exhibition – Emeryville, CA
Juror’s include: Maria Medua of SFMOMA Artist Gallery2006
2006 Woods Gerry Gallery – Providence, RI
2003 20th Emeryville Art Exhibition – Emeryville, CA
2000 17th Emeryville Art Exhibition – Emeryville, CA
Juror’s include: Andrea Voinot of SFMOMA Artists Gallery
2002 Textile Gallery, Korea,“Pagaji and Beyond Exhibition”
GRANTS
2016 Emeryville, CA Bus Shelter Public Art Program
HONORS
2011 Caitlin’s Art Studio – International Competition “Creating Energy” – Providence, RI
