Cory Still is the Traditional Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of July 2019. He is a Gilroy, California based artist who specializes in realistic still life drawings using markers, pen and ink.

Cory’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the month of July 2019. The gallery will promote Cory and his work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts to over 3,500+ buyers, collectors, galleries and art professionals, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Cory’s Artist Statement below as he describes his history and process in his words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see his exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Cory’s work, please visit his website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Cory’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Cory and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Cory Still’s Artist Statement

I grew up in Sunnyvale, CA, forty miles south of San Francisco, but I now reside in Gilroy, CA. I had always enjoyed art growing up. However, I was the only one in my family with any real interest in art. My interest peaked in high school when I attended Bellarmine College Prep, a very highly acclaimed academic and athletic school in San Jose, California. It was a relatively small school, so there was much opportunity to grow as a student, person and member of the community. There was much opportunity to learn the arts and it was great preparation for the next level.

I attended California State University, Long Beach, where I majored in Art and Design. The primary focus of this program was perfecting hand skills. However, due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, I was unable to graduate. I had a terrible thing happen to me that ruined my college career. One day, I took my entire portfolio to school to receive some critiques from my teachers and it was stolen out of my car. Five years’ worth of work, down the drain. Naturally, I was devastated. I quit school and lost my passion for art.

From 1994 to the mid 2000’s, I worked in the golf industry. I eventually moved back to the Bay Area and had a few good jobs in the .com startup boom, but the company went bankrupt. Therefore, that left me with bartending. For eight years, I helped run the bar at the Gilroy Veteran’s Memorial. I thoroughly enjoyed working there, meeting the Veteran’s and learning all their incredible stories. However, I began drinking heavily, until it landed me in the hospital and eventually rehab. It was the best decision I have ever made in my life and I have been sober since.

It was regaining my sobriety that sparked my passion for art again. My favorite medium is pen, ink, and marker. I am a very detailed oriented person, which shows up in my style of artwork. I view myself as a photo realist. I love when people ask me if I have been taking photos for very long. It blows them away when I tell them that all my drawings are created with markers, pen and ink. I hope you enjoy.

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