Corrine Slade's work is an ongoing imagining of a Black, feminine utopia. In both her paintings and the print "Friends of Fortune," Slade explains that her process is one in which figures and forms are not rendered to be exact. Her first venture into any print media, Slade experimented with a variety of intaglio techniques. Hard and soft ground, aquatint, and drypoint marks are deliberate and instinctual. The immediacy of this way of working brings a lush field of textures and tones to the viewer's eye.

Slade writes, “The figures in this etching are immersed in a dream-like space that I myself find comforting. The flowers, butterflies, and plants are natural objects which act as symbols of plentifulness, growth, and fertility. They suggest the beauty of my world and the beings that exist within it. The growth of the natural world is intrinsically linked to the growth of the human spirit. The places that I construct for black women are environments of solace that do not exist for us in this world.”

Friends of Fortune has been exhibited in Slade’s solo show Land Becomes A Nest at Jargon Projects (Chicago, 2021) and unfinished: New Prints at the Print Center New York (New York, 2022).