Sweet sweet color, the pools in which artists bathe the souls of their viewers and themselves.
Some artists dole it out as if there was only a thimbleful of it available in all of creation, and others, the ones collected here, drop it down unmercifully, like a pigment monsoon.
This exhibition is a celebration of those artists and that impulse.
Bask in it.
Norm Magnusson, curator (short bio below)
(n.b.: Though most artists are excited to be included in this exhibition, not all who are listed below have been approached yet.)
Gabe Brown
(3, above)
Deborah Kass
(2, above)
Bruce Nauman
Vincent Pomilio
Ruby Palmer
Laura Gurton
Heather Hutchison
Thomas Huber
Stevan Jennis
Margeaux Walter
Stephen Niccolls
Mariela Bisson
Elisa Pritzker
Portia Munson
Alex Afix
Andrew Faris
Eduardo Terrazas
Helen Dardik
Herbert Beyer
Leon Lester
Martina Nehrling
Stephen Westfall
Norm Magnusson
Norm Magnusson is mildly renowned all over the world.
He’s received a NYFA Fellowship (2014-2015) for sculpture, Pollock-Krasner
Foundation grants for sculpture (2016-2017) and for painting (1998-1999), and a
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant (2008-2009) and a NYSCA grant (through
the Center for Sustainable Rural Communities - 2014), both for public art
installation.
As a visual artist, he has shown in galleries and museums in
New York and New Zealand, London and Paris and all over the United States. His
work is in private and museum collections around the world, including NY’s MoMA
(Franklin Furnace Artist’s Book Collection) and he’s been reviewed everywhere
from the NY Times to the Washington Post to the Utne Reader, the “Center for
Sustainable Practices in the Arts” magazine, Sculpture magazine, TrendHunter.com
and many other national and international magazines, websites and blogs.
As a curator, he has brought together exhibitions such as
“FU”, which examined and illustrated U.S. fair use laws as they pertain to
visual artists; “The Museum of Controversial Art”, which re-created some of the
most controversial art through the ages; “Beautiful nonsense”, which consists of
objects and art meant to challenge the intellectual sure-footedness with which
we move through our everyday lives; and “abc@WFG”, a survey of text-based art.
As an educator, he’s taught art to under-privileged kids in
NYC and over-privileged kids in Woodstock, NY. He created a 12-class curriculum entitled “Art that’s
changed the way I see the world around me” in which artists and gallerists and
rock stars and film makers and authors and academics came and spoke on that
topic with visual and audio aids.
For the last 6 years, on August 29, the date of its world
premier in Woodstock, NY, Magnusson has produced an anniversary concert of John
Cage’s 4’33” at the WAAM Museum in that town.
Recently, he’s returned to his first creative love, acting;
starring in community theater productions of plays by David Mamet and David
Ives, and as Pozzo in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Most recently, he
performed in the The Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck’s production of
Eve Ensler’s “A memory, a monologue, a rant, and a prayer.” He wrote his first
ever words and images monologue “The signs in our lives” and performed it at
the Hudson Literary Festival in 2014 and reprised it in the summer of 2015; in
November, 2016, he debuted his "Swipe right" monologue at the Coccoon
Theater in Poughkeepsie.
He is the co-founder of FISHtheMOUSEmedia, a developer of educational
apps for iOS; where his “Animal alphabet” app was widely acclaimed and honored
with a prestigious Gold award from the Parents’ Choice Foundation.
He serves on the board of directors of two 501(c)3 organizations, Young Rhinebeck and
GoodJTDeeds and is the father of 3 wonderful kids, all of whom are especially
talented at seeing the world around them with appreciative eyes and a grateful
heart. He reckons this is his proudest accomplishment.
