Corrina Sephora is an Atlanta-based mixed-media Artist specializing in sculpture, painting and installation. Her current show, Reflections on the Universe, weaves ancestral memory with cosmic reflection, creating works that become vessels between worlds. Many of the pieces respond to the final words her poet mother shared before becoming, as Corrina describes it, “stardust”: “I’m sending you a prayer from the moon.”
“Her voice continues to guide me,” Corrina reflects, “as the work moves between earthly presence and celestial distance, the known and the unseen.”
At the center of this body of work are Corrina’s Aviron sculptures. Formed from metal and rooted in her lineage of boatbuilding and seafaring, these works exist somewhere between oar and staff. They function as symbolic vessels, carrying memory across visible and invisible waters while suggesting passage, ritual and guidance.
The works are informed by the ancient tradition of blacksmithing, where fire and force transform raw material into objects of meaning. Historically, blacksmiths were not only makers, but also figures associated with healing, transformation and spiritual mediation. This lineage informs the Avirons, imbuing them with both physical presence and symbolic resonance.
A large, airy boat form anchors the exhibition, holding a copper figure reminiscent of an ancient totem, a goddess, or perhaps a plumb bob. Standing vertically within the space, it becomes a site for contemplation and transport; a vessel for reflection among the ceremonial Avirons.
“Light moves through the works with a quiet luminosity that evokes the moon and the rhythms it governs,” suggests Corrina. “The relationship between water and moon, tide and pull, suggests an underlying harmony between nature and spirit, where cycles of movement connect human experience to the larger cosmos.”
The accompanying paintings unfold as maps of remembrance, exploring thresholds between life and afterlife, matter and spirit, the individual and the infinite. Together, the works become a meditation on passage and return, and on the enduring connection between water, moon, and the unseen forces that guide us.
"Reflections on the Universe," acrylic, aerosol, metal dusts & pigments on wood panel, 72 by 144 by 2 inches
"Eclipse," forged & fabricated steel & bronze, 94 by 13 by 3 inches
"Ophelia," acrylic, aerosol, metal dusts & pigments on wood panel, 32 by 96 by 2 inches
This piece can be installed vertically or horizontally.
"Prayers From the Moon," pigments, paint, aerosol & crystals on wood and steel + light, 28 by 28 by 4 inches
"Saturn," copper crystals, paint, metal dusts & pigments on steel & wood, 13 by 13 inches
"Zircon," paint, pigments, aerosol and crystals on steel & wood + light, 13 by 13 by 2 inches
"Avale par une Vague (Swallowed by a Wave)," forged & fabricated copper, 63.5 by 55 by 47 inches
"Isis," forged & fabricated copper, bronze & steel, 70.5 by 23 by 3 inches
"Crescent & Juniper," forged & fabricated copper, brass & repurposed steel, 84 by 9 by 3 inches
"Hathor," forged & fabricated copper, bronze & steel, 79 by 11 by 3 inches
"Ancestral," forged & fabricated copper & bronze, 72 by 36 by 12 inches
"White Feather on Stone Mountain," acrylic, pigments, bronze & steel dusts, quartz crystals, plexi, & mica on wood panel + light, 60 by 60 by 2 inches
"Majestic Ambrosia," acrylic, aerosol, pigments, metal dusts, copper, mica, crystal on wood + light, 72 by 42 by 5 inches
"Elsewhere," copper, patina, paint, collaged paper & pigments on wood, 28 by 25 by 6 inches
"Prayers for the Moon," paint, aerosols, pigment, organic materials & metal dust on wood, 40 by 41 inches
"L'eau," forged & fabricated copper & steel, 80 by 11 by 4 inches
"Lunar Calendar VI," copper, paint, pigments & mica on wood + light, 20 by 20 by 2 inches
"Ancestry," forged & fabricated copper, 28 by 22 by 4 inches
"Overture," forged & fabricated bronze, steel with oxidized brass plaiting, 18 by 3 by 2 inches
"L'ascension vers la lune," forged & fabricated brass, bronze, steel, copper & Mokume', 35 by 20 by 5 inches
"Sours de la Lune I," forged & fabricated bronze, steel, brass & aluminum, 30 by 5 by 2 inches
"Eclipse de la Lune," forged & fabricated brass, bronze, steel, copper & Mokume', 34 by 6 by 3 inches
"Sours de la Lune II," forged & fabricated bronze, steel, brass & aluminum, 30 by 5 by 2 inches
"Petit Oiseau I," forged & fabricated bronze & steel, 39 by 14 by 4 inches
"Waxing & Waning," forged & fabricated copper, bronze & steel, 41 by 4 by 2 inches
"Petit Oiseau II," forged & fabricated bronze & steel, 35 by 11 by 4 inches
"Lunar Ascension," forged & fabricated copper & bronze, 32 by 20 by 34 inches
"Mokume' Moon," forged & fabricated copper, bronze, brass & Mokume', 27 by 5 by 2 inches
"Fleurs," forged & fabricated copper, bronze & steel, 18 by 5 by 3 inches
Corrina Sephora is a mixed media artist specializing in metal sculpture, painting, and installation who has lives and works in Atlanta. Corrina works with universal and personal themes of loss and transformation, within the context of contemporary society. In Corrina’s most recent bodies of work she is exploring lunar images, cells, and the universe as “a meditation in the making.” In a concurrent body of work she has delved into the physical transformation of Guns, altering their molecular structure into flowers and garden tools through hot forging the materials. Her work has led her to community involvement with the conversation of Guns in our society. Corrina earned her BFA in Metals and Sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, in 1995. She received her MFA in Sculpture in 2005 from Georgia State University and has done residencies throughout the US and abroad.
She works individually and collaboratively, creating a dialogue with personal psychology and social interest, producing art, teaching, and executing public and private commissions. Corrina’s work is on permanent display at The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, The Atlanta Botanical Gardens, Greenfield Hebrew Academy, and in the collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and in national private collections, including Elton John.
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