Cory
Archangel

About the
Artist

- An artist/entrepreneur living and working in Stavanger, Norway, and Brooklyn New York
- Conceptual artist who works in various forms of media
(Drawing, music, video, performance art, video game modifications )
- Uses artistic strategy of Appropriation: Reusing existing materials
- Work explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture
- Recipient of 2006 Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award

Examples of Work

“Cory is one of the first in a young generation of digital hackers to really enter the art world,” - Barbara London (Associate curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art)

Super Mario Clouds

A modified version of the video game Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo's NES game console in which all of the game's graphics have been removed, leaving a blue background with white clouds scrolling slowly from right to left.

Photoshop CS Series

Arcangel's Photoshop CS series are large c-print gradient digital paintings created solely in the eponymous popular image editing program. They appear to be a pop art version of abstract expressionism or color field painting.

Self Playing Bowling