CHILDREN PLAYING ON THE BEACH WITH OILED TAR
Corey Stein, Sunland, CalifornIa

Corey Stein was born in the Los Angeles area, but is maternally linked to the Tlingit tribe.  She has spent many wonderful visits with family in Alaska, dating back to school vacations. She currently lives in a “spruced up cabin” surrounded by oak trees and black widows in California. Corey attended school at Cal Arts in Valenci. She describes her art as “environmental observations and connections.”  Most of the concepts for her projects come from things she has seen on the street and in nature. She takes her unique perspective and puts it into multi-layered, freeform art, attempting to show the outside world and her internal processing simultaneously. The image I’ve sent depicts young girls playing on the beach with oiled sand. It is an appropriation in beadwork of Mary Cassatt’s famous impressionist painting ‘Children on the Shore,’ 1880”