Corbly Brockman (He/Him) (b. 1992) is a Queer interdisciplinary artist from Cincinnati, Ohio currently residing in Chicago, IL. Prior to pursuing a Master of Arts from SAIC’s Art Therapy and Counseling program, Corbly graduated with a BFA from The Art Academy of Cincinnati. His artwork specifically explores identity, social issues, community, and trauma. His current body of work explores notions of Queering, placemaking, wholeness and liberatory praxis while centering lived experience, transformation, and joy. Corbly was an art therapy intern at Jesse Brown VA and currently works at Roots and Rays Creative Counseling where he will continue working post-graduation. Corbly has held various gallery related positions and is currently a graduate curational assistant for SAIC galleries. Corbly continues to explore new and dynamic approaches to practice in both his art making and clinical work while also serving as a board member for the nonprofit, Roots and Rays Center for Creative Medicine.
We are all Queer.
You, reading this statement are Queer.
We all have an inner world and sense of self that is uniquely our own.
Queering is integrally political and Queering space is the voice through which I view the world. I came to this work as a way to process the events that unfold before me and how I subsequently interact and react to the harm that the world has given me. The art shifted and transfigured into a response to my own covert and overt trauma, how this informs my art and art therapeutic practice as well as how I can foster a deeper understanding of Queering.
Interdisciplinary art practices were used to process, dismantle, draw attention to, and contextualize the macro and micro systems that seek to oppress while also drawing on a sense of Queer joy. Clay was used as a material force to engage with my internal and external world and dialogue. Through this process, the work has been reimagined as a body of Queer altars and associated acts. The space I’ve intrinsically cultivated utilizes various altar pieces to engage with the Queer. I seek for people to have a broader discourse with my work and in so doing, bring to your attention the ideas of placemaking, w[h]oleness, Que[e]ry, the intentionally radical, the politicized body, the transformative vessel, the assimilation, the erasure, the collective, the subversive, the empowerment, the trauma, the [cis]stem, the alter, and the altar that are all inherent to the Queer.
Radical Queer Permutation, 2023. Glazed Ceramic.
W[h]oleness, 2023. Glazed Ceramic.
Viewfinder, 2023. Woodfire Ceramic.
Untitled, 2023. Mixed media collage.Offering to altars or ephemera.
Untitled, 2023. Mixed Media Collage.Offering to altars or ephemera.