Cory Basil

Cory Basil is an American painter, filmmaker and author. His aesthetic blends gothic romanticism with the post-impressionists' trust in emotional honesty over the dubious truths to be gleaned from appearances. He conjures a world beyond our own with a renaissance artist's reverence for colour and light and has the soul of a baroque spectacle. He is a self-taught artist who started experimenting with filmmaking and animation in 2006. He is inspired by stop-motion animation's embrace of imperfection and its ability to imbue self-contained worlds with mood and tone both alien and familiar. In 2011, he created the paper doll animation style, further exploring the juxtaposition of truth hidden within creations, honesty in fiction, beauty in error.
Basil first brought his distinct style to the public in a 35-piece watercolour and India ink exhibition, "Internal Exposure," 2011, in Nashville, Tennessee. The whimsical worldview of the exhibit captured imaginations, and more than half of the pieces were sold within two weeks. Since then, his work has been the focus of eight additional exhibits, including Poetry is Dead, 2011, Nashville, which have sold throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
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