A resident of San Francisco’s Bay Area, Marty McCorkle introduces the viewer to his reformation of photography on canvas using oil paints and computer technology. He uses computer software to alter the image and then translates this using oil paint, creating a tension between the two media. McCorkle aims at an experiential sense of place and of people, where the wafty fragments of perception come together only loosely—rather than photographically—in the mind.

"We perceive the world with a backdrop of our ever changing emotions: the layers of a landscape might consist of trees and hills set against the backdrop of the sky; the sky in turn is set against the oval backdrop of the limits of our peripheral vision (of which we are usually oblivious to); our vision in turn rests uneasily against the backdrop of quicksilver, our psychological state."

List of Pieces:

1. Pat Sitting

2. Pat Holding Her Hair

3. Pat in Surf

4. View of Landscape through Arch, Villa di Adriano

5. Ruins of Villa di Adriano

6. Pathway Under Arches