In art, the human figure is the great equalizer, the reference point that never fails to draw an almost visceral response from the viewer. That this fleshy empathy transcends stylistic diversity, allowing various forms and degrees of figuration to coexist harmoniously is demonstrated dramatically in Corno’s powerful work.

The Montreal artist who signs her paintings with the single name Corno is a well known media figure in Canada, famous for being as dynamic and outspoken as her sensual canvases of well endowed male and female nudes. Her figures are so voluptuous that they resemble unisex go-go dancers. Like Madonna, the media’s leading sexual icon, the figures that Corno paints flaunt a flamboyant freedom. These are ‘in you face’ paintings with admirable audacity and visual clout.

Corno’s colors are bold and electric, tending to brilliant reds, yellows and blues, combined with a fluid black line that gives her figures their definition. She is a contemporary Expressionist with a flashy post Pop sensibility, yet her figures are often fragmented in a manner suggesting the armless, headless torsos of antiquity.