Cortney Frasier in her SCAD studio

Using salvaged items and materials associated with domesticity, Cortney Frasier creates work that reflects her daily experiences. She approaches the materials as one would a household – arranging, hanging, tidying, and organizing – then installs the work to converse with the viewer.

The Pennsylvania native has lived in geographically and socially varied places – from Juneau, Alaska to Miami, Florida to Washington, D.C. Her work is greatly influenced by the natural and suburban environments within which she lands, which is currently in Mooresville - a small former mill village outside of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Cortney coordinates Secondary Fine Arts programming for Iredell-Statesville Schools, teaches as an adjunct art professor at Davidson Davie Community College, is a former Charlotte ArtPop Artist, and is founder and Director of the Falconer Foundation, providing scholarships to high school seniors for the pursuit of arts and service.

With an undergraduate degree in psychology and masters degrees in both education and fine art, Frasier uses her artistic practice to document and process the complicated interactions between her inner and outer worlds by producing art at College Street Studios in Mooresville. Past projects include explorations with yarn installation and conceptual work centering on chores and domestic identity. Currently she is exploring the attachments we make and the resultant vulnerabilities that surface in terms of power, place, and identity.