KORN - Parting Line
KORN
parting line
view exhibiton
June 13-30
Opening reception: Saturday, June 14 6-8pm
Artist talk with Megan Hinton: Friday, June 27th at 6pm
Farm Projects is pleased to present Parting Line, a solo exhibition by KORN that brings a raw and urgent material language to themes of queerness, intimacy, and resistance.
Originally from Recife, Brazil, Korn studied art in Memphis before relocating to Brooklyn, and later the Hudson valley; where they spent 25 years fabricating work in glass, wood, and metal for other artists at Polich Fine Art foundry/UAP. After decades away from their own practice, Korn has returned with a distinct lexicon shaped by letterpress, printmaking, photo transfers, concrete and metal.
In this collection, KORN turns to the architecture of queer cruising—the coded language of public restrooms and hidden meeting places—as a lens for exploring bodily autonomy, visibility, and risk in a repressive political moment. These charged prints and sculptural works evoke the materiality of tile, plumbing, urine, and surveillance, transforming spaces of marginalization into ones of subversion and connection.
Balancing industrial grit with moments of intimacy, KORN reimagines sites often weaponized against trans and queer bodies into arenas of pleasure, protest, and visibility.
in between (December 2024), photo transfer and drawing, 12 1/2 x 16 1/2”
Todo Mundo/Everybody (January 2024), photo transfer on drawing, 16 × 20”
Playground (December 2024), photo transfer on stainless steel and paper/collage, 12 1/2 x 16 1/2”
Game for One (November 2024), cast concrete/and drawing, 6 x 7 x 13 1/2”
Solid (June 2023), cast concrete/solid, 22 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 7/8”
Urinal; upstate NY, summer 2024 (January 2025), photo transfer/letterpress, 16 × 20”
Edf. Louvre; stairs to men’s bathroom, Saõ Paulo, 2024 (December 2024), photo transfer, 16 × 20”
Frutas (December 2024), photo transfer and letterpress collage, 16 × 20”
Fresh; urinals at Gifford House; Ptown, 2024 (December 2024), photo transfer/color transfer, 16 × 20”
Hi Buddy (February 2025), photo transfer/lino cut/letterpress, 16 × 20”
Hi Handsome (February 2025), photo transfer/linocut/letterpress/foil collage, 16 × 20”
Oceans, Recife/Ptown, 2024 (December 2024), photo transfer/collage/letterpress, 16 × 20”
Greetings; Fancy urinals at Yale (March 2025), photo transfer/collage/letterpress, 16 × 20”
Big Blue (December 2024), photo transfer/woodcut, 16 × 20”
Directions (March 2025), letterpress/collage, 16 × 20”
Instructions (March 2025), letterpress/collage, 16 × 20”
The directions were unclear (April 2025), photo transfer, 16 × 20”
Greetings (March 2025), photo transfer/collage/letterpress, 16 × 20”
Proposal (January 2025), photo transfer, letterpress, ink, 16 × 20”
Somewhere in between; there I am (June 2025), photo transfer and lino cut, 16 × 20”
All the layers (June 2025), letterpress, color transfer, 16 × 20”
Vague (February 2015), letterpress/mixed media, 12 × 16”
Caju (November 2024), photo transfer and oil stick, 12 × 16”
Just the tip (December 2024), photo transfer, 12 × 16”
Scrambled (December 2024), photo transfer, 12 × 16”
Breasts and goalposts (December 2024), photo transfer, 12 × 16”
Sacred Fruit (February 2025), photo transfer, 12 × 16”