"Quinacridone air" 2023, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 46" x 54"
"amber" 2023, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 46" x 54"
"Green air" 2022, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 46" x 54"
"Bee it" 2023, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 46" x 54"
"dayoil/grad" 2022, pigment and pastel on velour paper, 20" x 28"
"nightoil/scar" 2022, pigment and pastel on velour paper, 20" x 28"
"dayoil/gold" 2022, pigment and pastel on velour paper, 20" x 28"
"dayoil/yello" pigment and pastel on velour paper, 20" x 28"
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"Brussel" 2009, oil on canvas, 27.5" x 45"
"The Missing Dove" 2014, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 39" x 31"
"Brooklyn Panorama 7" 2010, oil acrylic primed paper, 10" x 15"
"Brooklyn Panorama 4" 2010, oil acrylic primed paper, 10" x 15"
"LA" 2012, Liquitex matte gel pigment on canvas, 68" x 46"
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"Motion Picture 03" 2015, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 31.5" x 39"
"Motion Picture 14" 2015, pigment in acrylic on wood, 56" x 96"
"Motion Picture 05" 2015, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 42" x 46"
"Motion Picture 16" 2016, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 43" x 60"
"Motion Picture 17" 2016, pigment in acrylic on canvas, 43" x 60"
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"Cow" 1997, oil on canvas, 71" × 59"
Panther | 1996, oil on canvas, 60" × 42"Panther, 1996, oil on canvas, 60" × 42"
"Donkey" oil on canvas, wood, 70.5" x 59"
"Onager" 1997, oil on canvas, 71" × 59"
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János Korodi

Philadelphia, PA

Résumé

Artist Statement

My personal relationship with the industrial environment began in revitalized warehouses in the late 1990s. I painted under the protection of functional architecture, I was working on the painterly formulation of the environment. Industrial architecture as a function-centered, unadorned geometric medium not only provided protection and impulse-free tranquility, but its metaphysics permeated my images. Its strong character traits—just as the nervous system and muscles developed at a young age—defined my later series of paintings.

In recent years, I have combined movement, time, and the phenomenon of non-place with the metaphorical use of the road and then the bridge. After many years of insecurity caused by immigration, in the new environment, the industrial landscape greeted me once again and became the source of my visual thoughts. As soon as pictures emerged from these thoughts, I knew I was home again.

I started a project in 2020 by finding a new source material and medium to work with. I found a raw plywood sheathing and started printing uniquely selected compositions directly on the wood by keeping its patterns visible at the same time, inviting them to interfere with the image. The trashed plywood sheets with their natural patterns showing up as repetitions of ornaments on the surface made perfect backgrounds for the motion based work I’ve been dealing with.

The second series I printed on plywood I call “Light works Terminal”, it’s a series of photos of oil tanks I've made in NorthEast Philadelphia and along the Delaware River. It caught me especially how the sunlight plays on the huge, rough surfaces, with just a few objects that would stick out to cast lines and elongated, elliptical shapes of shadows on their enormous bodies. The few variable elements such as ladders and numbers reappearing on the pieces along with the changing light and shadows, and their constellations with the wooden patterns gives the series a fresh poetic air.

In a spirit of discovery and progress, I ventured into a new field with airbrush paintings after a year of experimenting with pastel powder on velour paper. This latest series represents a synthesis of my core interests with a new technique. Using high-pressure air and pigment-based acrylic paints, I have managed to translate the ephemeral qualities of light and shadow that I so admired in industrial landscapes into a new medium that offers both subtlety and dynamism.

Please also take a look at my website.

Artist Biography

Janos was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1971, and has lived in Philadelphia since 2015. A visual artist, primarily a painter, as well as dealing with different forms of printmaking, murals and occasionally participating in interdisciplinary collaborations. Curious, outside-the-box thinker, a visual storyteller and presenter. Persuasive, articulate individual who easily meets people and quickly engenders trust and confidence. Organizer and networker, who quickly oversees and identifies the underlying issues in a complex situation.

Education

2014
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
DLA (PhD)

2004 - 2005
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Austria
(guest semester at the architect-faculty, class of Wolf D. Prix)

2002 - 2005
DLA (PhD) courses in Pécs University Art Department

1998
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
MFA

1991 - 1992
Art Management School, CASYS, Budapest, Hungary

Awards & Honors

2014
TerraCycle Residency, Trenton, NJ

2010
Eötvös Grant of the Hungarian State, Studio Residency, New York City, NY

2008
Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy in Rome

1999 – 2001
Derkovits Scholarship of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage

1996
The Scholarship of the Tóth Menyhért Foundation, Kecskemét, Hungary

Collections

Park Towne Place, Museum District, Philadelphia, PA

Irokéz Collection, Szombathely, Hungary

University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Raiffeisen Bank

Collection of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Hungary

Neon Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Lajos Ludman Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Istvan Szentirmay Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Bela Horvath Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Spengler-Somloi Collection, Budapest, Hungary

Peter Szep Collection, Budapest, Hungary

and numerous private collections all over the world

Bibliography

Catalogues/Publications

2023  
PUBLIC ART PROPOSAL, Janos Korodi reimagines Philadelphia’s rusty tanks as vessels of beauty and community, ROOT QUARTERLY VOL. 5, ISSUE 2, RUST, FALL 2023

2020  
PROFILE, Mental States: For painter Janos Korodi, home—and freedom—are in the mind
ROOT QUARTERLY VOL. 2, ISSUE 2, FIGHT, FLIGHt, TEND & BEFRIEND

2016  
motion_pictures // Catalogue of the Series / English / ©Janos Korodi
(catalogue)

2015  
Genius Loci – Works 2008–2014 // Hungarian–English / ©Neon Gallery, Budapest
(catalogue)

2014
Interferences of Genius Loci and the Universal Laguage of Art // PHD thesis by Janos Korodi, 2014

2013
Cooperman, Marcie, Color: How to Use It textbook, color theory ©Pearson Prentice Hall

2008
Paintings 1994–2008, Hungarian–English, 100p – 94 color plates ©Janos Korodi

2006
DLA Degree Works, Hattyúház, Pécs, University of Pécs

2005
Postillusionism, Wittgenstein-Haus, Wien, Ministry of National Cultural Heritage
(catalogue)

2002
Paintings 1995–2001, Ernst Museum, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
(catalogue)

Exhibitions

Solo

2021
Light works Terminal,
Létminimum Bázis Budapest, Hungary

2016
Anonymous Landscape, Artworks Trenton, NJ

2014
Speakeasy, Neon Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
with Roland Horváth

2013
Máglya köz, AJAMK, Budapest, Hungary

2011
Eternal Lingering, Neon gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2010
Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Secret Reading, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2008
Under Construction, U Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Joensuu Art Museum, Finland

Hungarian Cultural Institute, Tallin, Estonia

MetaDa: Janos Korodi, ARTI 08, Den Haag, Netherlands

2006
Under Construction, acb Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Janos Korodi & Luca Korodi, Raiffeisen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Tour, with Luca Korodi, New York Palace, Budapest, Hungary

2003
Janos Korodi, Secco Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2002
Paintings 1995 – 2001, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

We choose yellow rather than bluish-white, with Luca Korodi APA! Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1999
Selfspreading, UFF Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

20th Century Box, with with András Szigeti, UFF Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1997
Janos Korodi, Subway Club, Budapest, Hungary

Slamasztika 97’, with Kálmán Ádám, UFF Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1994
Janos Korodi, Tam-Tam Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Selected Collective Shows

2022
Passages:
Arden Bendler Browning and Janos Korodi, miniMAC (miniature Mount Airy Contemporary), Philadelphia, PA

2021
Hidden Threads, Hot+Bed, Philadelphia, PA

Passenger, with Andras Szigeti, Hungarian Cultural Center, Istabul, Turkey

Passenger, with Andras Szigeti, Hezarfen Film Gallery, Architecture Center, Izmir, Turkey

2019
Pattern Burst, Artsy Exclusive, InLiquid, The Yard, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Motion Pictured,
DVAA @ International House, Philadelphia, PA

Transformation as Perception, Azavea, Philadelphia, PA

Outside In, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

International Variety – A Works on Paper, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2016
America,
The Gallery at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA

2015
Water/Color, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ

Art all Night, Trenton, NJ

2014
Art all Night, Trenton, NJ

2012
Group Show, Wallspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Trial, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011
Hybridity within the Carpathians, MODEM Centre for Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary

2010
Donumenta, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

2009
Accademia delle Accademie, Tempio di Adriano, Rome, Italy

Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome, Italy

2008
9 Hungarian Artists, Erzsebet Square, Gödör Klub, Budapest, Hungary

The New Refutation of Time, The Irokez Collection, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Stretch it!, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2007
Uncutted Version, Painterly Positions, Ernst-Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Horror Vacui, Selected works from the collection of Katalin Spengler and Zsolt Somlói, Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2006
SideMen, 7 Hungarian artists, Körzőgyár, Budapest, Hungary

Bada Dada Memorial, Gallery IX, Budapest, Hungary

Inner Landscape, Octogonart Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2005
Postillusionism, 4 Hungarian Artists, Wittgenstein-Haus, Wien, Austria

Works of DLA Candidates, Hattyúház, Pécs, Hungary

Personal Space, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bruxelles, Belgium

Bellevue, Tűzraktár, Budapest, Hungary

Doctor of Liberal Arts, Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2004
Derkovits Fellows, Hungarian Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria

DLA+DLA, Candidates from PTE and MKE, Barcsay Hall, Budapest, Hungary

The Irokéz Collection–New Acquisitions, Gallery Irokéz, Szombathely, Hungary

2003
Painting Biennal, Väsby Konsthall, Infra Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Painting Biennal, Infra Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Bad Boys, Műcsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest, Hungary

Works from Candidates at PTE and MKE, Gallery Pécs, Budapest, Hungary

2002
Fresh, Art Mill, Szentendre, Hungary

It’s good everywhere, but the best is at home, MEO, Budapest, Hungary

2001
Introducing The Irokéz Collection, Műcsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest, Hungary

Derkovits Fellows, Hungarian Institute Moscow, Russia

2000
Derkovits Fellows, König Albrecht Haus, Leipzig, Germany

Dialogue, Painting on the Millennium, Műcsarnok Exhibition Hall, Budapest, Hungary

Fellows of the Tóth Menyhért Foundation, Cifra Palace, Kecskemét, Hungary

Rotation, X/O Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1999
Irregular Memory, Szombathely Exhibition Hall, Szombathely, Hungary

1997
Slamasztika 97’, with Kálmán Ádám, UFF Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

1996
”K” as Chimera, Szombathely Exhibition Hall, Szombathely, Hungary

Group Show, Zichy Castle, Budapest, Hungary

1995
Baranyai, Korodi, Uglár, Újlak Exhibition Space, Budapest, Hungary

1994
Group Show, Lajos Vajda Studio, Szentendre, Hungary

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