Cory Marie Podielski received her BA in Art from UC Santa Barbara in 2002. Upon finishing her undergraduate program, she returned to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the fashion industry studying textile design, marketing, illustration, and graphic design. Her recent artistic work explores the intersection of historical periods, punk rock tactics and costumery (such as drag/burlesque/dandyism) as a strategy of rebellion and transcendence of common cultural paradigms. Through digital imagery, printmaking, and illustration, her work investigates the different ways underground movements appropriate elements from mainstream history and culture to subvert and challenge accepted ideas.

After completing a poster series in 2005 for Ms. Vaginal Davis' 1920s speakeasy club, BRICKTOPS!, poster design and vintage styles became another focus in Cory's work. The posters series unites a love for graphic design, vintage poster art, Art Deco and Nouveau styles, Bricktops, and Vaginal Davis. Recently Cory has finished a series of Art Deco style vintage airline posters for Mercury Air that depicts travel all over the world.

Cory currently works in the swim industry. From swimwear designs, to conceptual artwork, textile designs and repeats, trend research, marketing strategies, and advertising campaigns, Cory is busy doing a bit of everything creative. Her designs can be seen at Limited Too, Kohls, Mervyn's, Macy's, JC Penney, Sears, and swim boutiques around the world. Cory finds it funny that as a teenager she spent hours rocking out to BIKINI KILL and now she designs bikinis. Cory still secretly rocks out to BIKINI KILL with her headphones at work and relishes in the irony.

When she's not creating art, Cory Marie prefers tap dancing with her tap-a-go-go dance troupe DEATH TAP 2000. She also frequents diners, works on her teen occult book series, plays Scrabble®, frequents the LA zoo, and explores abandoned ruins. Currently she resides in Los Angeles, but she is also very fond of France and French culture and hopes to move to Paris someday. The title from this website is from an old psychological test that uses the phrase "I Love Paris in the the Springtime."