Nora Normile
Interior Wall, 2023
Stoneware, wood, metal binder rings, cardboard, silk ribbon
69 x 108 x 24 in.
Normile’s meticulously fabricated works attempt to devise a whole - a whole work, a whole being, a whole show - out of the fertile dissonance that exists between the entropy of the physical world and the slipperiness of societies perceptions, value standards and definitions. Normile researches and ‘catalogues the marks of human intervention where the human is not physically present’ as evidence of the efforts we go through to arrange our surroundings to satisfy our specific tastes, and sometimes further, to disguise decay.
Her excellent display of skill in ceramics arranges the history of Pattern and Decoration alongside some of the more ‘macho’ sculptural interventions, exploring the at once troubling and potent experience of personal expression, while fantasizing about domestic architectures, abstracting the craft-arts and crafting the fine arts.
Nora Normile (b. in New York, NY) received a BFA in Studio Art from NYU in 2015 and is receiving an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she currently teaches ceramic sculpture.This is her second show with Entrance, following Fruit-Call, her solo debut in 2019.
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Untitled (bronze 3), 2023
Cast Bronze
0.25 x 3.25 x 4.5 in.
Platform 1 (Perfect Dirty Carpet), 2022
Stoneware, sculptamold, wood
13 x 48 x 36 in.
Untitled (elevator wall protector), 2023
Silkscreen on felt, grommets
136 x 32 in.
Interior Wall, 2023
Stoneware, wood, metal binder rings, cardboard, silk ribbon
69 x 108 x 24 in.
Untitled (bronze 2), 2023
Cast Bronze
1 x 3.5 x 3.25 in.
Untitled (negative space between wrought iron fence posts 7), 2022
Stoneware
20 x 7.25 x 6 in.
Untitled (table 2), 2022
Ceramic
6 x 8.25 in.
Untitled (negative space between wrought iron fence posts 4), 2022
Stoneware
19 x 4 x 3 in.
Untitled (gate 1), 2023
Colored pencil on paper
11 x 15 in.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Setting, Entrance Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Fruit-call, Entrance Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Sculpted Reveries - Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
2023 Playback - Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2023 A-Pou’s Taste - 963 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY
2023 The water in the rug from my cup on the bedside table: Michael Caudo and Nora Normile - Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2022 (un)Timely Untethered - Part 2, Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2022 (un)Timely Untethered - Ki Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2022 The Elusive Ground and a Few Ways to Grip It, Rutgers MFA Thesis Exhibition - Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2021 I Miss You Terribly When You're Away - Mason Gross Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
2019 Living Room - Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn
2019 NY First Show - The Palace, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Fresh Air - Hamtramck Ceramck, Detroit, MI
2018 Melted City 4 - Yui Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Born To Run - Lane Meyer Projects, Denver, CO
2017 Melted City 4 - ISB Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
2017 Melted City 4 - Blanc Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines
2016 Taking it All In - 103 Allen St, New York, NY
2016 Pietà: A Group Show - Chinatown Soup, New York, NY
2016 Show No.1 - 6Month Space, New York, NY
2016 SOUSE No. 1 - 460 Decatur St, Brooklyn, NY
2015 I Would’ve Ripped It Out and Kept It Forever - 80wse Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Missing An Angel - NYU Commons and Rosenberg Galleries, New York, NY
2015 Lifestyle Brands - 539 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Strangers forming a group waiting to kiss, curated by Salon Salon - Motel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Achieving Little or Nothing - NYU Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Everyday Special - 165 7th St, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Outer Room - 169 Rogers Ave, Brooklyn, NY
2014 She’s Amazing, It’s a Part of Her Identity - NYU Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Hronir: Un-Lost Things - Temporary Storage Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Currency Exchange - Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE
Education
2023 Rutgers University, MFA, Studio Art
2015 New York University, BFA, Studio Art