2019
Materials: Textile, plexiglas
Size: w/o
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Nora was the featured artist for A closer look at FRIEDA (November 2019 - January 2020). She also shared her skills with the community during the workshop on December 10, 2019.
Nora Chase is a visual artist who makes paintings, drawings, and constructions. She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Her work focuses on the emotive capacity of material and process explored within the breadth of human scale, sensation, and the built environment. Varied viewing proximity allows surface to function as both indicator and façade as it collapses and extrudes to the point where plasticity and method are ambiguous. The works employ the sublime and the grotesque as a device to seduce and repel by creating densely layered subtle surfaces that are injected with small acts of violence, which elicit multivalent interpretations. These readings draw on abstract personal narratives – broad and systemic in nature and appearance, but ultimately rooted in emotion and the experiential. Nora earned a BFA from Cornell University where she was a recipient of the David R. Bean Prize to study abroad in Rome and the inaugural Post-baccalaureate Exhibition Award. Her work has been exhibited nationally.
You can find more of Nora's work at her website.
Nora was the featured artist for A closer look at FRIEDA (November 2019 - January 2020).
She also shared her skills with the community during the workshop on December 10, 2019.
I keep revisiting Charles and Ray Eames’ The Powers of Ten, a film I first saw in elementary school. The farther things move apart, the more they become the same. Years ago, I sat in a garden beneath a Japanese Snowbell tree – its horizontal branches dripping in tiny white bell-shaped flowers and felt like I was surrounded by the Milky Way. We build maps according to the grid; a system that is uncompromised in integrity, until it is broken. When you magnify a piece of tarlatan, you see its imperfections. The warp and weft stretched to form an undulating network of misshapen boxes. There is comfort and familiarity in repetition, progress in building something from the same module. History revealed as layers are eroded away. A single square of cut paper or a bell-shaped blossom are insignificant in isolation, but achieve meaning in their recurrence.
You can find more of Nora's work at her website.
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