About Corynne

Baltimore City
Corynne Ostermann was born in the western suburbs of Chicago. Raised by a musician father and an artist mother, she naturally gravitated towards the arts. She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts during high school summers and fleshed out a painting and drawing portfolio. Now living in Baltimore, Ostermann graduated Summa Cum Laude from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. 
Working with banal symbols, words, and objects juxtaposed with moments of abstraction, recognizable… more

Recent Paintings

Recent Paintings, folding under the umbrella of Ostermann's artist statement: 

Working with banal symbols, words, and objects juxtaposed with moments of abstraction, recognizable images and objects, Ostermann creates grids, windows, and overlapping image structures that create a screen through which the picture is perceived. These filters are intentionally defunct, employing layers of transparency and overlap to suggest destabilized meaning and subjective response. The intersection of symbols and recognizable objects and moments of abstraction propose notions of fantasy, decoration, femininity, and the digital realm, as well as root the symbols in a nonexistent material and bodily plane.
In this newer body of work, Ostermann continues exploration of digitization and creation of pop cultural images of femininity. She is interested in the intersection of reality, digital reality, and hyper produced imagery through mainstream pop outfits (i.e., major record companies, advertising agencies, specific designers, etc.) and how these images create a communal dissertation of pop femininity to be consumed at rapid fire online and replicated in the real world through capitalism. Further, using decades-old images of pop stars, cheesecake pin-ups, dead princesses, or out-of-date imagery alongside contemporary pictures, the work invokes non-linear notions of time, nostalgia, and the future through compressed and collaged digitally-collected images.

  • The Lovers, 2020
    The Lovers, 2020
    The Lovers, 2020 60x78" Latex and oil on canvas
  • Untitled (Rose, harness, and Neoclassical Sensuality), 2021
    Untitled (Rose, harness, and Neoclassical Sensuality), 2021
    Untitled (Rose, harness, and neoclassical sensuality), 2021 40x52" Mixed media on canvas
  • Jesse, 2021
    Jesse, 2021
    Jesse, 2021 48 x 60" Oil on canvas
  • Untitled (Childhood), 2021
    Untitled (Childhood), 2021
    Untitled (Childhood), 2021 Oil on Canvas 30x40 "
  • Untitled (Floral painting), 2021
    Untitled (Floral painting), 2021
    Untitled, 2021 26" square Oil on canvas
  • Untitled for Lauren and Kevin, 2021
    Untitled for Lauren and Kevin, 2021
    Untitled (for Lauren and Kevin), 2021 36 x 48" Oil on canvas

Floral Watercolors and Drawings

Ostermann works frequently during the day as a floral designer, therefore, she often turns to flowers are subject matter--they provide the soft abstraction and contextual femininity that she seeks in relation to her previous works, as well as florals transcend most aesthetic pop culture trends, while still remaining relevant. She likes to mix and match her material for the image, resulting in many multimedia drawings. 
  • Untitled, 2021
    Untitled, 2021
    Untitled, 2021 9x12" Mixed media on hot press
  • Untitled 2021
    Untitled 2021
    Untitled, 2021 Mixed media on hot press 9x12"
  • Untitled 2021
    Untitled 2021
    Untitled, 2021 Mixed media on hot press 9x12"
  • Untitled 2021
    Untitled 2021
    Untitled, 2021 Mixed media on hot press 9x12"
  • Untitled (Big Rose), 2021
    Untitled (Big Rose), 2021
    Untitled (Big Rose), 2021 Conte, ink, and mixed media on canson 18x24"
  • Mums, Neapolitan Style, 2021
    Mums, Neapolitan Style, 2021
    Mums Neapolitan Style, 2021 Mixed media on hot press 9x12"
  • Untitled, 2021
    Untitled, 2021
    Untitled, 2021 9x12" Watercolor, pencil, and ink on hot press
  • Floral Drawing, 2021
    Floral Drawing, 2021
    Floral Drawing, 2021 Conte on paper 18x24"
  • Untitled (Anthurium)
    Untitled (Anthurium)
    Anthurium, 2021 Mixed media on hot press 9x12"
  • Untitled, 2021
    Untitled, 2021
    Untitled, 2021 Watercolor and mixed media on hot press 9x12"