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Perception, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimore, MD

Symbiosis, Art & Nature, Peninsula Gallery, Lewes DE

Growth Determined, Hot-Bed, Philadelphia PA

Endangered, Rehoboth Art League, Henlopen DE

W I O I N, What is Old is New, Tennessee Tech, Cookeville TN

Biological. Kate Norris, Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore MD

New Work, The Alchemy of Art, Baltimore MD

Resplendent, Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD

Little Pieces, Live2Eat Gallery, Baltimore MD

New Work: Nature, Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore MD

Kate Norris; Realm of the Spirit, Minas Gallery, Baltimore MD

Introducing, Clayton Galleries Inc., Tampa FL

Color, Beck Gallery, Tampa FL

Views, Villa Julie College, Stevenson MD

Kate Norris, Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore MD

Recent Paintings, School of Visual Arts Galleries, New York NY

Expressions, Tressider Union, Stanford University, Stanford CA

KATE NORRIS

Kate Norris, Detail of Everyman, collaged wallpaper, 2021, 60 x 48 inches

KATE NORRIS

BIOGRAPHY

Lives and works in Baltimore, MD

Bend, OR, 1960

MFA Painting, School of Visual Arts in New York, New York

BA Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

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Kate Norris tears up floral, toile, and Chinoiserie wallpapers separating each vignette, or object, and combines fragments to create wholly new images that are disconnected from the wallpaper’s original subject matter. Toile patterns historically feature pastoral scenes from travels abroad, farm life, and hunting scenes in the country, printed in one color in repeat on a light background. Chinoiserie is similar, but its designs do not repeat—they are more like a mural—and depict European ideas of what the exotic Far East might look like. Toiles, in particular, are popular today and one can find contemporary toile patterns that show everything from Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee to The Mandalorian. In Norris’ hands, the ripped fragments tell myriad stories through new juxtapositions that aggregate to form a greater whole, often larger-than-life figures and heads seen as anatomical skeletons or flayed bodies. She creates cognitive dissonance by using wallpaper imagery meant to be pleasant reminders of one’s leisure travels, or favorite things, and transforms them into anatomical specimens. At once beautiful and thoughtful, the images are also stark. The collages shatter the societal complacency contained within the wallpaper’s imagery and transform into a universal common denominator: our physiology and shared humanity. In a way, viewers can decide on the level of interaction: they can get involved in the micro scenarios up close or take in the whole image from a distance. Or thrill at both.

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Explore, American Artists Professional League, NY, NY

Holiday Exhibition, Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore MD

Interplay, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD

Art on Paper, Strathmore Mansion, Rockville MD

The Big Show, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD

Winter, Rehoboth Art League, Henlopen Delaware

Erotica,1448 Gallery, Baltimore MD

First & Franklin, Presbyterian Church Chapel gallery, Baltimore MD

Summer, Rehoboth Art League, Henlopen Delaware

Miniatures, Y-Art Gallery, Baltimore MD

The Big Show, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD

Superheroes, Y-Art Gallery, Baltimore MD

Blossoms of Hope, Columbia Arts Center, Columbia MD

Hampton Mansion, Teacher Exhibit, Towson MD

Waterworks, MFA Gallery, Annapolis MD

Director’s Choice, Howard County Arts Council, Ellicott City MD

Spring, Towson Art Collective, Towson MD

Strokes of Genius, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis MD

Open Studies, Fox Gallery, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore MD

Cornucopia, TAC, Hereford Library, Hereford MD

Members Exhibit, Baltimore County Arts Guild, Baltimore MD

Ruler Breakers, Max Gallery, Baltimore MD

Hot Summer Show II, Clayton Galleries, Tampa FL