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Corinne Geertsen (born 1953 in Salt Lake City, Utah is an Arizona artist who creates digital photocollages. Her work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, is in collections worldwide, as well as in the permanent collections of museums.

Personal Life
Geertsen grew up in Great Falls, Montana, the daughter of a psychologist. While in high school she received several American Cancer Society grants for work in genetic mapping research. She became interested in art at an early age and exhibited in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Education
Geertsen received her BA and MFA in drawing and printmaking from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Work
Geertsen’s artistic work evolved from drawing and painting to digital experimentation after obtaining a computer and Adobe Photoshop in order to restore old photos of her ancestors. She became intrigued with the possibility of creating drama by putting the restored figures in new backgrounds and adding animals, backgrounds, and objects. Geertsen maintains a stock of over 50,000 digital images of animals, objects and backgrounds to employ in her work, adding hundreds of Photoshop layers to add textures, shadows, light balance, and visual consistency. Thus, the details of her work are realistic, but their combination surreal. Of her work, Geertsen says, “My images are quirky visual narratives about psychological predicaments. I especially like a good plight. My work content mirrors personal, political and global situations – in a sly way”.

Geertsen’s work spans more than a century and a half of technology. She uses Civil War and Victorian era studio portraits as source material, and digital cameras and a computer with massive memory. She has said that she enjoys the contrasts and challenges of working with multiple technologies. , and in 2020 her work was included in the Arizona Biennial Exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art.

Projects
Design for the Tempe, AZ History Museum Time Capsule

Portfolio of works based on the photographs of George Edward Anderson, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University

Label for La Debáuche craft beer, Angoulême, France

Book cover for Pigs When They Straddle the Air, by Julie Nichols,

Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT, "Corinne Geertsen"

2018 Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, "Corinne Geertsen"

2016 Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa AZ, "The Footnote Chronicles"

2016 Tempe History Museum, Tempe AZ, "History: What Happens When You’re Not Looking"

2014 Springville Museum of Art, Springville UT, "Beyond Memory"

2012 Kimball Art Center, Park City UT, "Freudian Trip"

2012 Scottsdale Public Arts, Scottsdale AZ, "Corinne Geertsen"

2011 Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler AZ, "Psychological Sophistication and Quirk"

2010 Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa AZ, "Psychological Sightseeing"

2010 Cathedral Center for the Arts, Phoenix AZ, "Geertsen at the Olney"

2010 Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, "Corinne Geertsen"

2010 Mesa Community College, Mesa AZ, "Corinne Geertsen"

2009 @Central Gallery, Burton Barr Public Library, Phoenix AZ, "Psychological Images of Sophistication and Quirk"

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, "Salmagundi Photography Exhibition"

2021 Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, "Our Global Climate Emergency"

2020 Pop Santa Fe, NM, "Pop Femme Sugar Coated Strange"

2020 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, "Arizona Biennial"

2020 Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale AZ, "Arizona Biennial Artists"

2019 Anthony’s Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT, "Certain Women"

2019 Park City, UT, "Making Her Mark: Art by Women"

2019 Tempe Center for the Arts, AZ, "Myths, Maps and Legends"

2018 Haven Gallery, Northport, NY, "Music Box III"

2018 idea Museum, Mesa AZ, "Far Out! "

2018 Shemer Museum, Phoenix, "We Believe"

2018 Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT, "Journeys"

2016 Mesa Community College, Mesa AZ, "50 Years of Collecting"

2016 Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland WA, "Contemporary Showcase"

2016 Meyer Gallery, Park City UT, "Photo Focus"

2016 i.d.e.a Museum, Mesa AZ, "FantaSea"

2013 Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale AZ, "Works on Paper"

2013 Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa AZ, "Weather or Not"