Corey Mason's art is visually awkward but also culturally indeterminate. Inspired by pigments from the Palaeolithic Age, his work often refers to the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet as readily as it does Picasso's minotaur paintings. Yet, his ceramic images suggest Mesoamerican as well as European references. These depicted motifs are often playful, trivial or deliberately ambiguous, and Mason’s deceptively simple visual language sees him translating images of timebound objects—whether European Delftware or Mesoamerican pottery—into jazzy, off-kilter improvisations that ultimately transcend a specific time or place. Corey Mason was born in 1979 in San Antonio, TX, and lives in Raleigh, NC. He has mounted solo exhibitions at Tennis Elbow, The Journal Gallery, New York City, NY (2022); County Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (2021); and Achenbach Hagemeier, Berlin, Germany (2020). Mason has also been featured in group shows, including Choi&Choi, Flower, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Digital Nature, Achenbach Hagemeier, Düsseldorf, Germany (2022); and Penumbra, Olsen Gruin, New York City, NY (2019), among others.