Marie Cornuelle was born in Oberlin, Ohio. She currently lives in Boston, Mass., with her always inspiring wife, Kimberly Cornuelle.
Her photography has been exhibited and sold at the Gallery of Photographic Arts, Boston’s 80 Border Street Cultural Exchange Center, at Northern Ohio galleries including Oberlin’s FAVA Gallery, coffee shops and retail stores.
Pascal Lavigne, a Parisian art collector, owns the original title piece, “Rapid Stasis,” from her first metropolitan show in Cleveland, Ohio.
She is a Kent State University graduate interested in promoting social justice, democracy and a civil society through social media. In 2003, she co-founded and launched Fusion magazine, a bi-annual student media publication that addresses minority issues while encouraging education and awareness of sensitive topics. Since the beginning of its publication, Fusion magazine received recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists and was presented with several Mark of Excellence Awards, including:
* First Place: Best Student Magazine (Published More Than Once a Year), Staff
* First Place: Best All-Around Online Student Magazine, Staff
CLICK BELOW to see ONLINE archives of the award-winning publication:
Fusion magazine, Fall 2004
Fusion magazine, Spring 2004
Fusion magazine, Fall 2003
Since the start of her journalism career in 1997 at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., she has worked for several student media publications, Marcus Thomas Advertising LLC and The Cleveland Foundation, Penton Media Inc., SunMedia Inc., Gannett Co. Inc., LPGA’s Sara Lee Classic, Cleveland’s non-profit Greater Community Shares, the Chautauqua Institution’s newspaper - The Chautauquan Daily.
Her work is locally featured in Boston University’s Magazine Bostonia and Internet news source - BU Today.
LINKS TO MULTIMEDIA SLIDESHOWS BELOW:
Music’s Magnetic Pull: Tanglewood draws great young talent to the beauty of the Berkshires
Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Boston’s Chinatown
BU in D.C.: Where J-School Gets Real
Dressing the Part: CFA’s Nancy Leary designs costumes for opera, theater, and television
Henri CartierBresson, the legendary French photojournalist once wrote: Through living we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the external world. Cartier-Bresson’s artistic philosophy has heavily influenced her work.
Some of her past work includes:
:—-Fragments & Answers: Light travels with poems,Solo Show
(2008) 80 Border Street Cultural Exchange Center, Boston—-:
:—-Rapid Stasis: Time and Space on Cleveland’s Transit Lines
(2005) Gallery of Photographic Arts — Cleveland, Ohio—-:
:—-Six-State Annual Juried Photography Show 2005 & 2006
Fireland Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) — Oberlin, Ohio—-:
:—-Cleveland Foundation 2004 Annual Report – Photographer
Hired by Marcus Thomas Advertising, LLC—-:
:—-Luna Negra – Showcases literary and fine art at Kent State University—-:
:—-(a)literal translation: of&without words: photography by Marie B. Ho
(2003) Kent State University — The Kent Student Center Gallery—-:
EXHIBITION REVIEW:
Rapid Stasis: Time and Space on Cleveland’s Transit Lines
Published in the Cleveland Scene: January 19, 2005
Three photographers — Samara Peddle, Greg Ruffing, and Marie Ho — jumped on Cleveland buses and trains, and started snapping black-and-white pictures. The result is gritty urban landscapes and striking portraits of people. Some are inspired compositions, such as Peddle’s photo of a man, seated at the end of a passageway, in a pose like that of Rodin’s “The Thinker,” or Ruffing’s shots of the city’s decaying industrial past, as well as a view from the rear of a train descending into a pitch-black tunnel. Ho contributed at least three memorable images: “Headlights,” a long exposure of light reflected on the side of a speeding train; an ironic picture of a solitary man, reading a book titled “How to Talk to Anyone”; and an elegantly abstract “Self-Portrait” that’s really a long shadow cast along a narrow and tightly enclosed train platform. All three photographers belabor the point that mass transit often looks like mass alienation, causing their metaphor to fall flat. And some pictures go too far by taking advantage of an uncomfortable situation: It’s hard to blame train passengers for hiding their faces or staring blankly off to the side when a stranger starts taking pictures. Overall, though, “Rapid Stasis” is well worth the trip. Through January 29 at The Gallery of Photographic Arts, 2512 Church Ave., 216-861-3062 —
Zachary Lewis, On View: Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.
Max Beckmann wrote:
I believe that, with the digital camera, photography has now come full circle. It can break away from the totally realistic image and explore these same themes of modern painting in new and purely photographic ways. The principle method for achieving this will be via long timed exposures.
According to Einstein the basic structure of our world is space-time and things exist in a space-time continuum, a world of four dimensions: height, width, depth plus time. To transform height, width, and depth into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.
Photography is particularly capable of exploring this dimension. A photographic exposure results from a combination of space and time since it is caused by an amount of light (light that is usually reflected from a space) for a duration of time. Photographs taken with a slow shutter speed can record a subject in motion, the existence of a subject over a duration of time.
But even more than the ideas of Einstein, motion is the essence of life. To be alive is to move.
In fact death is often determined by a lack of movement such as no breathing and no pulse. Yet it is sharp, clear, frozen images — still photographs — that we cling to in our family albums and on posters. While this “frozen moment in time” is marvelous, it is, in a sense, unrealistic since life is always moving on.
“For fame and wealth, most people dishonestly flatter others. You must know that it is painful when people cannot be honest with each other. If you don’t want this pain, turn your greedy heart into an honest heart. Earn your money honestly and use it in meaningful activities for the good of all. In this way, you will be happy and free.”
(Dharma Master Cheng Yen, Buddhist Nun and founder of the Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation)
