March 27 - May 29, 2021
From the gallery:
“NORMAN KARY
Dallas artist Norman Kary has a long track record in Texas art for his multimedia and assemblage work. He has lived and worked in Dallas since 1976, moving here after graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1974. His work is included in prominent collections nationally, including the Austin Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Art, and International Museum of Collage. More recently, he has begun to explore a more painterly side, through two-dimensional works which build on his collage practice to communicate through the visual language of abstract painting.
His fascination with found objects goes all the way back to his childhood in Los Angeles, scavenging the fields and industrial parks there as a boy. This led to the conceptually minded collage and assemblage production he has refined over the last forty years. In the last year, the seclusion of the pandemic has led him into a more reductive approach to his work. This began with the practice of reconstructing puzzles, which led him into an obsessive use of a three-hole punch on old magazines, the waste parts becoming dense and abstract collage paintings. As he recalls it, “the chaotic world I was creating felt like the chaotic world around me.””
Reception: March 27, 2021 | 2–8 pm
918 Dragon Street
Dallas, 75207 TX
469-551-3967
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