Corrina Sephora

"Somewhere Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Edge of the Universe II" - Nevelson

2019

Corrina Sephora is a mixed media artist specializing in metal sculpture, painting and installation who has lived and worked in Atlanta. Her works with universal and personal themes of loss and transformation, within the context of contemporary society. In Sephora’s most recent bodies of work, she is exploring lunar images, cells, and the universe as a meditation in the making. In a concurrent body of work, she has delved into the physical transformation of guns, altering their molecular structure into flowers and garden tools through hot forging the materials. Her work has led her to community involvement with the conversation of guns in our society. Sephora earned her BFA in Metals and Sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, in 1995. She received her MFA in Sculpture in 2005 from Georgia State University and has done residencies throughout the USA and abroad. She works individually and collaboratively, creating a dialogue with personal psychology and social interest, producing art, teaching, and executing public and private commissions. Sephora’s work is on permanent display at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Greenfield Hebrew Academy, in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and in national private collections, including Elton John.