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TJ Norris |
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b.10 October, 1965 |
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The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a vast renaissance of change, effected dually by both natural shifts and urban gentrification. I am surrounded by this incredible dichotomy, watching a former industrial capital become a metropolitan center: multicultural neighborhoods awkwardly emerging. I've seen the great lakes, valleys, desert and mountains and balance them in my daily walks through parks, alleys, vacant lots, train and shipyards. In the process I have documented the aging, of architecture as well as a variety of industrial and other natural settings by weather and the human hand. I look at my surroundings as a deconstructed topographical map. My practice of looking is patterned in real time with the camera and then digitally recomposed like a musical score. And often I will pair myself in collaboration with some of the world's finest composers of field recordings and electro-acoustic compositions.
Where nature emerges as geometric and mechanical I often discover unique relationships, between the organic and the fabricated - virtually mapping the intersection between the experiential and the concrete. Taking pictures or making video is an act of collecting source material for evolving multimedia projects. Like an archeologist would, I observe nature’s quintessence and digitally transpose its fragility. I seek to offer my audience a sense of immediacy with the sense of place, by bringing them closer in, causing a contextual repurposing of public vs. private space. I wish to draw parallels between micro (surfaces, textures) and macro (scale, depth of field) – all discoverable in the epicenter of the city. And once back in the studio I analyze and develop my sources, presenting new work that may seem encoded, or of a parallel universe. It is both the tangible and the inferred conceptual narrative that are in the balance.
TJ Norris
June 2008
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Neon Gallery, Brosarp, Sweden
New American Art Union, Portland, OR
12x16 Gallery, Portland, OR
Atom Heart, Montreal, Canada
Chambers Fine Art, Portland, OR
Soundvision, Portland, OR
Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Somerville Art Museum, Somerville, MA
UMass/Boston, Boston, MA |
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Beaverton Arts Commission |
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Newspace Center for Photography |
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Couture Grant, New American Art Union |
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Caldera Arts Residency, Sisters, OR |
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2009
Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR
2008
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
2007
Boise State Visual Arts Center, Boise, ID; Portland Art Center, OR; The Art Institute, OR; New American Art Union, Portland, OR; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; Artists Space, New York, NY; Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
2006
Guestroom Gallery, Portland, OR; Mills Gallery, Boston, MA; Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2005
Fresh Trouble, Portland, OR
2004
Luke & A Gallery, London, UK; Reed College/PCAC, OR
2003
Haze Gallery, Portland, OR; The Best Coast, Portland, OR; Southeast Museum, Brewster, NY; Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, OR
2002
Charlie White Gallery, Portland, OR
2001
Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY; Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
1999
LGBT Museum Project, New York , NY
1998
Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA
1997
International Place, Boston, MA; Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA
1996
Brewhouse Gallery-Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA
1995
The New Art Center, Newton, MA
1994 Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
1993
Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA; Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais, MN
1992
The Space, Boston, MA; University Art Museum, SUNY/Binghamton, NY; Laura Knott Art Gallery/Bradford College, MA; Cyclorama/BCA, Boston, MA
1991
Howard Yezerski Gallery & Gallery Naga, Boston, MA; NH Experimental Works Studio, Goffstown, NH
1990 Alchemie Gallery, Boston, MA; Boston Center for the Arts*, Boston, MA; Laura Knott Art Gallery, Bradford, MA; Alchemie Gallery, Boston, MA; Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, MD
1989
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1988
Cyclorama/BCA, Boston, MA; Tower Gallery/MassArt, Boston, MA
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Beyond Trend by Matt Mattus, 2008 (How To Books) |
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One Shot by Visual Codec, 2007 (Seattle, WA) |
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Leonardo Magazine/MIT Press, 2005 (Cambridge, MA) |
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