Joseph Norman

Art Brokerage: Joseph Norman American Artist: b. 1957. Joseph Norman is American artist born in 1957, known for paintings, drawings, and lithographs. He is also considered by many art historians to be the most important African American lithographer of his generation. Norman's motifs include depictions of tangled tree trunks and vegetation, seedy, industrial architecture, hardware, hand tools, and chains. His portraits of famous but underrepresented black figures, images of enslaved Africans, and titles like Slum Garden and Middle Passage indicate how geography, history, hope and dismay inform his expressive work. He is a Professor of Art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, as well as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art at Johnson Wales University. He is the former Chairman of the Painting and Drawing Department and Founder of Study Abroad Latin America, Cuba, Costa Rica, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Joseph Norman has lived and worked in Canada, Germany, Spain, Costa Rica and Cuba. His works are housed in Americas most important museums and public collections including, The Columbia Museum of Moder Art The Museum of Modern Art, NY. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The National Gallery and Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. Listings wanted.