Rebecca Norton

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Rebecca Norton is an artist, curator, and educator. She holds a BFA from the University of Louisville and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design. Her work is in permanent collections, including the 21C Hotel Louisville, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University. Norton is the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including the Puffin Foundation, the See.me 2013 Painting Category Winner, the M.A. Hadley Fellowship, the Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant, and the Great Meadows Artist Professional Development Grant. She has written for publications such as Arts in Bushwick and Abstract Critical. Her lectures and writings have also been featured on MOCA tv, the Brooklyn Rail, and Duke University Scalar publications, as well as Blacksun Lit. Norton is currently working as an independent curator with The Common Gallery in Louisville, KY, and is co-founder of MaybeItsFate, a member-owned art gallery and private social club in Louisville, KY.

REBECCA NORTON: CLIMACTIC

Rebecca Norton, *Affinity Cast*, 2023, Oil and graphite on linen, 35 x 23 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Reversal*, 2023, Oil and graphite on linen, 44 x 30 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Heat (Rising Action)*, 2023, Marker and oil on linen, 28 x 33 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Inciting Incident 1*, 2023, Oil on linen, 10 x 15 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Inciting Incident 2*, 2023, Oil on linen, 15 x 10 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Palette 1*, 2023, Graphite and oil on linen, 12 x 14 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Palette 2 (Rogue)*, 2023, Graphite and oil on linen, 12 x 14 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Palette 3*, 2023, Graphite and oil on linen, 12 x 14 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Palette 4*, 2023, Graphite and oil on linen, 12 x 14 inches

Rebecca Norton, *One and Another*, 2021, Oil on linen, 60 x 38 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Orienting Differences*, 2021, Oil on linen, 60 x 60 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Sensing Instability*, 2021, Oil on linen, 60 x 38 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Stereomorph Sunset*, 2016, Oil on linen, 18 x 14 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Stereomorph*, 2016, Oil on linen, 18 x 14 inches

The Greener Green

Rebecca Norton, *The Greener Green*, Studio (detail)

FLINGS

Rebecca Norton, *Enclosed Operetta*, 2014, Oil on linen, 64 x 81 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Terrestrial (red)*, 2013, Oil on linen, 20 x 25 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Ballardian Safari*, 2010, Oil on canvas, 13 ½ x 88 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Spring, Winter, Fall, Summer (painting for Maggie)*, 2017, Oil on linen, 58 x 25 inches

Rebecca Norton, *Glocke Shop*, 2013, Oil on linen, 83 x 50 inches

Rebecca Norton, *In a Frenzy*, 2013, Gouache on glassine, 45 x 35 inches

Rebecca Norton, *When Riding*, 2011, Oil on canvas, 72 x 26 ½ inches

Rebecca Norton, *Hand-Me-Down*, 2010, Oil on canvas, 58.5 x 13.5 inches

IN-BETWEEN

Rebecca Norton, *In Between, A Small Bell Rings Green*

Rebecca Norton, *In Between, Counter Bells*

Babbling to the Surface

Rolling Uphill in Neutral

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill In Neutral, Figural Terrain Two*

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill in Neutral, Rolling in Nuetral*

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill In Neutral, Figural Terrain One*

Cool Translations

Rebecca Norton, *Cool Translations, A Set of Vases*

Rebecca Norton, *Cool Translations, A Set of Vases* (detail)

3D Works

Rebecca Norton, *Figure*, 2018, (foreground), and *Ground*, 2018

Rebecca Norton, *Figure*, 2018, Acrylic plexiglass (alternate view)

Rebecca Norton, *Ground*, 2018, Acrylic plexiglass

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill In Neutral, Inner Landscape Right*

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill In Neutral, Back Side Inner Landscape*

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill In Neutral, Folded Landscape One*

Rebecca Norton, *Rolling Uphill In Neutral, Folded Landscape Two Side*

PRESS

The Brooklyn Rail, October 2023

Ruckus Journal, 2021

Amanda Heidel, (blog), September 29, 2015

See.Me, (blog), May 8, 2014

Arts in Bushwick, January, 2014

Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, “New Directions in Geometric Painting,” The Geometric Unconscious: A Century of Abstraction, edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 2012

Leo Weekly, May 16, 2012

Architects + Artisans, online, May 8, 2012

Louisville Magazine, May 3, 2012

Artnet.com, March 14, 2012

Louisville Magazine, September 3, 2011

Exit Express, Issue #53, June, 2010

BOMB, Number 114, Winter, 2010

REBECCA NORTON