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Korey Martin (b. 1989) is a pencil-on-paper artist of the "Broom School". For him drawing is not unlike the musical or floral arrangement wherein by playing the standards or riffing on broadly familiar motifs, his changes become amplified, however slight, and old harmonies briefly dissonant as they reemerge on the page. While Korey's interpretation of extant things may be distorted or in odd company, like the floral arrangement, you always more or less know exactly what you are looking at, even if not by name. 

This approach to his work is likewise a means to "clean the mirror" of the mind and spirit--a practice which maintains a playful curiosity for all that vitalizes the senses and aids him in his efforts to discover life as it truly is rather than as he believes it to be. Nevertheless, many perspectives make their way to his drawings, however modulated or impossible or silly as they may be.

Through this means of depiction, Korey seeks to maintain the inherit and endless potential of all things as indeterminate and interdependent having all at some point emerged from some shared origin before going on to be, in some inexplicable topological fashion, rearranged. In this manner, Korey plays the oldest standard--life itself--and hopes for his drawings to emphasize this sensation of recognition between the self and the great many things with which we surround ourselves and are immersed in--all quite often very still yet carrying some great momentum as a thing "in the midst of things".

Likewise, his pen & paper illustrations are often described as "incomplete" or "still coming together", and for this reason humorous and familiar. These have appeared in magazines, anthologies and college journals, on clothing, used by restaurants and hospitality services, branding for small businesses, a perfumery laboratory and even an elementary school library.

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