Ron Norsworthy
Biography
Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce our representation of Ron Norsworthy. Norsworthy’s most recent body of work, The Folks Who Live on the Hill, will premiere at our booth at The Armory Show from September 8-10. In fall 2024, we will present a solo exhibition of the artist’s work at our gallery.
The Folks Who Live on the Hill includes large-scale, sculptural artworks that are made of photographs, found and made by Norsworthy, layered onto plywood in relief. In these dreamed worlds, Norsworthy repositions images, tropes and narratives from throughout art history and popular culture to tell stories that center Black prosperity, joy, and belonging. The sources and figures that Norsworthy’s works put into direct conversation are only seemingly disparate — confronted with the coexistence/simultaneity of Grant Wood’s 1930s landscapes, Fanny and Ralph Waldo Ellison’s attempt at homeownership in 1960s Connecticut, and bespoke suits from 1970s James Bond films (to name a few details present in The Folks Who Live on the Hill), viewers are invited to explore the politics of seeing in ways that defy mainstream assumptions and paradigms.
Norsworthy was born in South Bend, Indiana and currently lives and works in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectively. Work from a preceding project, included in the Newark Museum of Art’s permanent collection, is on view in the museum’s long-term installation “Seeing America.”
Please contact Veronica Houk with inquiries.
The Folks Who Live on the Hill includes large-scale, sculptural artworks that are made of photographs, found and made by Norsworthy, layered onto plywood in relief. In these dreamed worlds, Norsworthy repositions images, tropes and narratives from throughout art history and popular culture to tell stories that center Black prosperity, joy, and belonging. The sources and figures that Norsworthy’s works put into direct conversation are only seemingly disparate — confronted with the coexistence/simultaneity of Grant Wood’s 1930s landscapes, Fanny and Ralph Waldo Ellison’s attempt at homeownership in 1960s Connecticut, and bespoke suits from 1970s James Bond films (to name a few details present in The Folks Who Live on the Hill), viewers are invited to explore the politics of seeing in ways that defy mainstream assumptions and paradigms.
Norsworthy was born in South Bend, Indiana and currently lives and works in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectively. Work from a preceding project, included in the Newark Museum of Art’s permanent collection, is on view in the museum’s long-term installation “Seeing America.”
Please contact Veronica Houk with inquiries.
Works
News
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DARNstudio's "G.O.A.T. The Art Game" at Newark Museum of Art
Featured in Architectural Digest January 2024 Issue 3 January 2024DARNstudio's "G.O.A.T. The Art Game" has been acquired by the Newark Museum of Art and is a part of the visitor experience at their newly restored Ballantine House.Read more -
The Kenyon Review, Winter 2024 Issue
Cover art by DARNstudio 1 January 2024DARNstudio's artwork is featured on the cover of the literary journal The Kenyon Review's Winter 2024 issue.Read more -
Multidisciplinary Authenticity: A Conversation with Artist Ron Norsworthy
Ron Norsworthy in White Hot Magazine 14 April 2023White Hot Magazine interviews artist Ron Norsworthy, discussing his multidisciplinary practice, his own lived experience in the world, and how he engages with his art.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy at the Newark Museum
Ongoing exhibition: Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century 1 April 2023Ron Norsworthy's work is included in the Newark Museum's long-term exhibition "Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century," an ongoing display of nearly 80 artworks that reframe The Museum’s historical American art collection to foreground slavery and Black and Indigenous history.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy is 2023 MacDowell Recipient
Visual Arts - Mixed Media Artist Grantee 28 February 2023Ron Norsworthy, a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work employs notions of space and decoration of space as narratives about his lived experience as a queer person of color as well as that of his communities.Read more -
Ron Norsworthy in The New York Times
1 October 2021Ron Norsworthy, a visual artist and designer, could slot easily into popular culture’s ideal of the hero: He is a man of relentless self-invention.Read more
Art Fairs
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EXPO Chicago 2024
Navy Pier, Booth 201 11 - 14 April 2024Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to return to EXPO Chicago from April 11- 14, 2024, presenting a selection of 20th-century and contemporary artworks.Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
Miami Beach Convention Center, Booth D7 8 - 10 December 2023Edwynn Houk Gallery returns to Art Basel Miami Beach 2023, exhibiting vintage and contemporary artwork at Booth D7 from December 8 - 10.Read more