IN THE THIRD PERSON;
Maisie Corl (b. 2002, New York) is an artist based in New York City. She received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025.
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Maisie Corl (b. 2002, New York) is an artist based in New York City. She received her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025.
Returning to her girls a capacity for
cruelty and a fascination with darkness, Corl’s paintings suggest alternative narratives to the tropes of cuteness we see and consume. In Corl’s work, girls are both the consumed and the consumer, the fetish and the gaze, the agent of force and the agent of resistance. Corl’s visual vocabulary of girlhood is grounded in one that we readily recognize, but thickly
layered paint and tense linework offer the girls masquerades—they get to decide if and how they want to be seen. Tension is concentrated in the figures’ hands—elongated and sharp, they touch, pick, and grasp. Corl’s shadowy scenes allow femininity to indulge in desire, monstrosity, catharsis, and control.
-Tiffany Wu, for hardboiled, 2024.
-Tiffany Wu, for hardboiled, 2024.
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