Jason Corder

Born San Francisco, 1969. With studios in France and Senegal, Corder has lived and painted in San Francisco, Addis Ababa and Songkhla (Thailand). Major influences include Boyle Family and Chris Ofili.

Trip To Corsica: The Art of Chance

I think that the art of this century will begin to move away from its focus on the machine, as in the last century, and towards the natural, the earth-based. As we get reacquainted with this planet, from which we have become so disconnected, art will reflect that reunion.

In 2005 I had the opportunity to explore the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Tumbling down hairpin roads with shocks of blue swirling below, reddish cliffs , peach earth behind massive boulders, I was greatly influenced by the experience. I came back to my studio on the mainland and created Trip To Corsica: The Art of Chance. With its geometric composition it was unlike anything I had done before and I hadnt worked on board for fifteen years. Other paintings came careening into reality like our rented Renault almost hurtling off a tiny country road near Evisa to avoid a family of pigs.

My Senegalese mentor, Ousseynou Sarr, while teaching me his mixed-media technique of earth and dry pigment,...