Abstract-gestural painter and mixed medium artist Cortney Mohring is know for bright, bold and line centric based works. Cortney’s playful attitude brings the viewer in and keeps them engaged by familiar and sometime suggestive shape and movement. You can find her artworks on walls around DC, large format paintings and smaller more accessible pieces for every collector.
Recorder
Recorder gestures toward the ephemerality of information by recording audio into sand.
Medium: Sand, acrylic, electronics including speaker and mic.
Year: 2017
Details: ~18 x 24 x 6"
Wander/Wonder
Wander/Wonder consists of two separate but connected experiences: Wander, a walkable virtual street map of Baltimore City with all buildings removed except for psychic reader storefronts, and Wonder, a zero-gravity digital astral plane experienced as a virtual reality (VR) environment.
As an interactant flies through the Wonder side via VR headset, the Wander side is projected on screen for spectators to view. The interactant uses a crystal ball to navigate both environments simultaneously - guiding the experiences of spectators in Wander while fully immersed in the VR environment of Wonder.
As an interactant flies through the Wonder side via VR headset, the Wander side is projected on screen for spectators to view. The interactant uses a crystal ball to navigate both environments simultaneously - guiding the experiences of spectators in Wander while fully immersed in the VR environment of Wonder.
Medium: virtual reality and immersive projection
Year: 2018
Details: Room-scale installation
I started out my career as a young Artist, still in middle school, going to an after school program called 901 Arts. The connections I made at 901 Arts allowed me to apply for several scholarships to cover art programs I was interested in. I was able to take fundamental drawing, expressional drawing, pottery, and photography classes at local Universities, Towson and the Maryland Institute of College and Art. The scholarships also allowed me to go to an art and film focused summer program, Steven Yeager's Young Film Makers Workshop.
Outgrown
Outgrown is a fantasy and a eulogy for weeds. Using augmented reality, this piece resurrects the weeds that once grew in a space and envisions a parallel world in which they now thrive. An interactant looks through one of the provided tablets at each glowing panel and sees the spirits of plants rise up to claim back a space of their own. They are meant to bring a strange kind of beauty, but also a glimpse of post-apocalyptic biodiversity, of a natural world that's had enough and won't sit still for us much longer.
Medium: augmented reality
Year: 2022
Details: variable, roughly 6x8'