Corrie Baldauf is a designer and interactive artist. Her art practice is based out of a shared studio in Detroit, Michigan. She has worked closely with institutions including the Kresge Foundation, Midtown Detroit Inc. and Urban Culture Project. As a resident artist at Griffin Gallery International Residency (West London, United Kingdom) she designed Gold Zero at ColArt’s Innovation and Development Laboratory, in partnership with Griffin Gallery, Liquitex, and White Noise in White City, London. Baldauf has shown her Optimism Filter Project in Detroit at Art X and Lille, France at lille3000. Her interactive work has been exhibited at The Detroit Institute of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Songjiang Museum in Shanghai, and The Museum Palazzo Barolo in Turin. Her art has appeared in ART das Kunstmagazin, Fukt Magazine for Contemporary Drawing, Hyperallergic, and HOHE Luft Magazine.  

My circle drawings complicate the space between portraits and landscapes. Each composition is a woven record of the sound, texture, and interaction occurring around me. Often, before I use my pen to draw, I trace the base of the pen with a pencil to define the innermost circle, giving one tool multiple purposes. Radial marks, in units of five, extending from the center in each drawing build in concentric rings and create an audible rhythm. At the moment I hear a siren, a laugh from the street below, or a quote in a podcast that gets my attention, I draw a hairline out to the border and note what I hear.

Exhibition:

In The Middle With You