By JONATHAN OROZCO April 2023
What I love about Ron Norsworthy, a truly multidisciplinary artist, and his art is its authenticity and outspokenness. It reconciles culture, history, and lived experience, in a vernacular of design that’s distinctly afrofuturist and afropessimistic - without contradiction.
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What is of interest in his practice is its positionality and commentary within the contemporary art world, operating within a commercial framework, yet still engaging with theories of beauty, the end result being art centering black and queer cultural life in the United States - perspectives that are overlooked by the dominant white gaze, and in recent years, being subsumed and taken by white cultural life, hetero and homo.
Here, Norsworthy speaks his truth as a multidisciplinary artist, and his own lived experience in the world and how he engages with his art.
