Atlanta Georgia Masterful Mural Artist Stops Traffic

    ATLANTA, GA, May 23, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Corey Barksdale bleeds emotion onto canvas, turning his intense feelings about music, politics, history and love into mesmerizing works of art. His musings in acrylic and in aerosol reflect the American experience and his journey as a black man.

A professional artist for 15 years, Barksdale's acclaimed work adorns Buckhead and Midtown businesses, and hangs in metro Atlanta art galleries and in private home collections. Large-scale murals are his specialty. One of his jazz-inspired pieces was on display at the High Museum during the WonderRoot Art Performance.

His mural Atlanta Reflections, part of Atlanta's BeltLine, can be spotted on a 30-foot wall inside the Hurt Building downtown. A mural inspired by the love story in Gone with the Wind is inside Buckhead Atlanta's L'Occitane en Provence on Buckhead Avenue. Another Barksdale mural provides a backdrop to the cityscape of Decatur, stopping passers-by on Ponce de Leon.

"A lot of the time I am drawing something from actual experience, but I put my own twist on whatever it is," Barksdale says. "I like to use my imagination and see where it takes me."

Barksdale runs and teaches classes at Decatur art school Creative Art Connections. A recent Barksdale exhibition of what he calls "larger than life" portraits of black American heroes was on display in the Marietta Art Museum. Among them was an eclectic portrait of Harriet Tubman.

"I wanted to pay tribute to her because she was a key figure in African-American history," he says. When I learned that I had artistic talent: "My art teacher would give us homework and every time I would come in with my homework he thought that someone else did it--like my older brother or my mother. Finally, he realized I could paint when I demonstrated it for an assignment in class."

If I couldn't paint anymore, I'd work in: Advertising.
How creating art makes me feel: "Painting gives me a sense of euphoria."
See my work: coreybarksdale.com

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