"This Martha’s Quarterly, Issue 12, Summer 2019, Shapeshifting in the Minor Leagues, explores shapeshifting by those who never had a ball, never mind the right conditions to become immortalized. The yellow cover is grazed with lines from Norm Paris’ drawings of imagined monuments. In his practice, he excavates former baseball players that most people know nothing about, men at the pinnacle of their masculinity and strength but never even close to the pinnacle of their sport to be remembered as Megan Rapinoe will be. Paris takes heaps of baseball cards and sands away at them, turning these perfect masculine poses into agitated abstractions that could mean a host of different things to the particular individual holding them. At the same time Paris makes enormous drawings of supposed monuments, figures of muscular men composed of thousands of lines, each line unsure of where it is going but collectively holding the others together like a web trying to keep together a hero who is a hero no more." - Tammy Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief

May 11 - June 9, 2019

"Ghost Stories presents Paris’ and Shetabi’s investigations into the inexplicable, the ghostly, and the ominous. Their works access viewers’ experiences of the familiar, transforming it into a haunting encounter. Norm Paris’ Monuments series of large-scale graphite drawings and plaster sculptures show the material and psychological making and unmaking of his subjects in ways which look to the past for glimpses into the future. Mark Shetabi’s sculptures based on movie theatres and hotel lobbies evoke a sense of a space that feels both distant and intimate as one discovers their eerie charms from a very close range. The play in both bodies of work between monumental and miniscule scale flips our expectations of things both epic and intimate."

SATELLITE 2018 will be held next door to NADA Art Fair at a 33,000 square foot lot in the heart of the Art and Entertainment District of Miami.

“Cutting open the sculpture feels like an act of inspection – physical and psychological. I frequently think about the relationship between the outside of something and the inside of it. There’s an element of surprise.”

The exhibition DRAWN (OVER): Contemporary Drawing from LeRoy Neiman Until Today is a part of an international project DRAW that was launched by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University in New York.

Participating Artists: Yasi Alipour, David Altmejd, Natalie Birinyi, Cecily Brown, Phong Bui, Ernesto Caivano, Nathan Catlin, Saint Clair Cemin, Aurélien Couput, Predrag Dimitrijević, Jelena Đurić, Rafael Domenech, Riaki Enyama, Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Fab Five Freddy, Ivan Forde, Barnaby Furnas, Gandalf Gavan, Eric Guerrero, Ben Hagari, Valerie Hammond, Suzanne Herrera, Duy Hoàng, Cary Hulbert, Jasper Johns, Goran Jureša, Kurt Kemp, William Kentridge, Hedya Klein, Susanna Koetter, Nataša Kokić, Fred H.C. Liang, Kate Liebman, Nicola López, Tijana Luković, Marko Marković, Nikola Marković, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Nora Mesaroš, Dante Migone-Ojeda, Johana Moscoso, LeRoy Neiman, Brian Novatny, Jennifer Nuss, Norman Paris, Mark Perlman, Eva Petrič, Kristin Plucar, Nemanja i Vladimir Radusinović, Jessica Segall, Monika Sigeti, Shahzia Sikander, Luis Silva, Dana Sherwood, Dasha Shishkin, Kiki Smith, Dragana B. Stevanović, Emma Sulkowicz, Sarah Sze, TARWUK, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tomas Vu, John Walker, Kara Walker, Heimo Wallner, Tommy White, Peter Wayne Lewis and Yuan Zuo

Curators: Tomas Vu, Mirjana Dušić-Lazićhttps

"Norm Paris’s “Cards,” a wall hanging, consists of faded glories: baseball and football cards that he has scratched, whited out, drawn over or sometimes reproduced as skeletal or robotlike sketches."

"Norm Paris made a geode sculpture by dividing a free-standing bust of the former basketball star Michael Jordan. A laborious process, Paris made the sculpture slowly using various types of resin and a slow pour before cutting the sculpture in half with a hand saw. The most successful piece in the show, it is both eerie and accessible, carrying a false weight of material expectation and the cultural perception of athletes throughout the US."

"The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free non-living studio space to 17 visual artists for year-long residencies. Its mission is to provide working studio space and community for artists. Artists are selected annually based on merit from a competitive pool of applicants by a professional jury comprised of artists and members of the SWSP Artists Advisory Committee."

Speakers is a group exhibition that gathers work from 34 of the artists who have presented their work at the Artist Lecture Series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is curated by Christopher Schade, Zoe Pettijohn Schade, and Michael Lee. Participating artists include James Bills, Tom Butter, Kate Clark, Alec Dartely, Molly Dilworth, Peter Dudek, Raymond Dumas, Jackie Gendel, Douglas Goldberg, Everest Hall, Sue Havens, Colin Hunt, Erick Johnson, Clint Jukkala, Sara Klar, Todd Knopke, Michael Lee, Joshua Marsh, Abraham McNally, Norm Paris, Lucy Pullen, Yadir Quintana, Taney Roniger, Gina Ruggeri, Christopher Saunders, Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Christopher Schade, Monika Sosnowski, Edouard Steinhauer, Sarah Steinwachs, Dan Sutherland, Nichole Van Beek, Sandy Winters, and Rachael Wren.

Through November 3rd

The Triangle Artists’ Workshop is an intense two-week studio session for an international group of 25-30 professional visual artists. Neither an art colony nor a school, the workshop offers a unique occasion for artists to meet and exchange ideas, not simply through talking, but by making art side by side for a concentrated period in a self-contained location. During the workshop, artists receive organized studio visits from critics, writers and curators, and participate in two organized panel discussions.

"Somewhere in the middle of weaving through this irregular drumbeat of entries, some discrete and others expansive, some intensely poetic and others thoroughly analytical, it occurred to me that Draw It With Your Eyes Closed isn’t entirely about assignments after all. Or rather that the conundrum of teaching and learning is almost always complicated by the social interactions that exist on the periphery of the class structure, the dynamics between teacher and student that spill out beyond the moment of traditional instruction. In fact, the emotional condition of the student seems most felt when things threaten to fall apart, when the assignment begins to fracture due to student confusion (Christine Hill), student transgression (Sara Greenberger Rafferty), or faculty error (Brad Farwell)."

Drawing Now /Le Salon Du Dessin Contemporain

In just 5 years, DRAWING NOW PARIS I LE SALON DU DESSIN CONTEMPORAIN, the top European fair exclusively dedicated to contemporary drawing, has successfully demonstrated the major role played by drawing in the work of contemporary artists. « It is a place where seasoned collectors can acquire unique works by artists whose drawings are rarely shown elsewhere. It is a place of discovery for young collectors who want to purchase original pieces by emerging artists! It is a place for close contacts between gallery owners, artists, collectors, institutions and lovers of contemporary art. In just a few years, this fair has established itself as a key event ‐ in the contemporary art calendar. » On the basis of these findings and confident of its necessity, DRAWING NOW PARIS I LE SALON DU DESSIN CONTEMPORAIN is back for its 6th edition at the Carrousel du Louvre, from Thursday 29th March to Sunday 1st April 2012, and will present the full diversity of contemporary drawing with more than 80 international galleries

CARROUSEL DU LOUVRE
99, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris

Artist Greg Linquist and I talk about a range of shared interests in conjunction with his show "You Are Nature", opening Thursday, February 9th, 6-8pm, at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY, NY

Up thru February 12th
205 Norman Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222

THE WALL STILL STANDS

SEPTEMBER 16 - OCTOBER 23 2011

The gallery is honored to present the first New York solo show by Norm Paris, “The Wall Still Stands.”

Paris’ work explores the unfixed relationship between an evolving group of icons, their shifting mythologies, and the languages used to represent them. In recent drawings and sculptures, old paintings and sports clippings are hijacked and used as blueprints for a haphazard building project. People are substituted with building material, and “green” technology is improperly installed. Structures of questionable integrity struggle to find their place in the landscape.

September 13, 2009 - February 07, 2010

"Recycling and the use of fragments is a thematic thread in the show. Norm Paris created a mezuzah, Rubble Fragment 1 (2007), out of what looks like a rough, old piece of concrete with a frazzled strand of cable attached to its side. The work is meant to invoke the ravages of conflict in the Middle East and throughout Jewish history. Here the material is as important as the form because it suggests construction and collapse. Concrete is made of dust and becomes dust, yet again. 'I am not entirely sure whether this object is a protective talisman, a religious reminder or a symbol of territorial struggle,' the artist wrote. What he was sure of was his desire to make the piece look recycled, 'Rubble Fragment I has been fabricated to look like a remnant from a military-industrial site, retrofitted to become an awkward religious marker.'"

The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave at 92nd St
New York NY 10128

Space 414 will present its debut exhibition with a group show titled “Vintage Violence,” featuring 16 artists’ work including painting, sculpture, and works on paper – all depicting various manifestations of violence. The exhibition is curated by John Gordon Gauld. There will be an opening reception on Friday, May 29th from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7, 6:00pm
Join us for a special gathering bringing together exhibiting artists Jennifer Bornstein, Norm Paris and Andrew Raftery,Shelley Langdale, Associate Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Nadine Orenstein, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art to discuss the exhibition.

The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
[Between Spruce + Locust Streets]
Open 11 am – 5:30 pm, Tuesday–Saturday

February 26 – May 16, 2009

Jennifer Bornstein, Ernesto Caivano, David Fertig,
Sarah McEneaney, Norm Paris, Andrew Raftery,
Kiki Smith and Anton Würth

Thursday, February 26
Gallery Talk by the Artists and Curator 5:30 pm
Opening Reception 5:30–7:30 pm
For information on related programs go to www.printcenter.org

The Print Center
1614 Latimer Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
[Between Spruce + Locust Streets]
Open 11 am – 5:30 pm, Tuesday–Saturday

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Post by roberta

Norm Paris in his studio talking with David Kessler in a new Studioscopic episode.

Our pal, David Kessler, just finished another wonderful video over at Studioscopic (click the link to get over there and see it). This one features Norm Paris in his studio talking about his classic installation, Michael Jordan Save the World (shown in a Fleisher Challenge exhibit in 2005). Norm talks about his fascination with sports icons as impossible heroes, and he's got something to say about the Philly art scene, too! We've written about Norm and if you search his name in the blogger search you'll unearth the posts.

http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/search?q=norm+paris

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Some news, some olds

Post by libby

Norm Paris' fabulous piece Michael Jordan, Save the World is now included in the West Collection, the amazing but little-known collection of contemporary artists in Oaks, Pennsylvania. The sculptural installation, depicting multiple Michael Jordans leaping up to catch bombs before they explode, got its first big exposure in a Fleisher Challenge in 2005. Jenny Jaskey announced in her gallery newsletter that the piece will be shown in future exhibitions organized through the collection's loan program.

http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/2008/01/some-news-some-olds.html

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Look! It's Episode 3!!!

Post by roberta

Huddle: Norm Paris and Cara Erskine at Tower Gallery to March 31.

Finish/Line Borowsky Gallery, Gershman Y to April 13. Works by Matt Curtius and Gina Triplett, John Gibbons and Isobel Sollenberger, Anne Krinsky and Rebecca Rutstein.

See all three episodes of Look! It's Libby and Roberta here. Produced by the awesome David Kessler.

http://fallonandrosof.blogspot.com/search?q=norm+paris

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Weekly Update - Tower Gallery Sports

Post by roberta
This week's Weekly has my Editor's Pick preview of Cara Erskine and Norm Paris's “Huddle” at Tower Gallery. Below is the copy with some pictures.


In 2005 at his Fleisher Challenge exhibit Norm Paris presented a small army of cast-plaster Michael Jordans with tongues hanging out attempting to catch falling bombs. In this new two-person exhibit, Paris and his Yale classmate Cara Erskine present a dialogue of works in paint, sculpture and prints in which the sports metaphor again presents issues of hero-worship and hope—and the impossibility of false heroes saving the world. Tower’s owner Jenny Jaskey says Paris created a massive concrete and forton MG sculptural installation, and this time the hero is a baby—”Son of Arnold (Schwartzenneger)”—who appears to be bench-pressing a pile of concretized rubble in a rubbish-strewn urban construction zone. Whether the reference is Iraq or Ground Zero, baby Superman or baby governor of California, the idea of misplaced hopes and failure are tied together in a sad package.

Erskine, represented by six works (including a 13-foot-long diptych), presents the ambiguity of winning with works that show victorious players whose faces register everything but happiness.

PS. See Rob Matthew's post about the show's opening for more pix and commentary.

Cara Erskine and Norm Paris: Huddle. Through March. Free. Tower Gallery, 969 N. Second St. 215.253.9874.