The Northwest continues experiencing a vast renaissance of change, effected dually by both natural shifts and urban gentrification. Great lakes, valleys, desert and mountains delicately balance between empty buildings, alleys, vacant parking lots, train and shipyards. The terrain evolves with my every step, and much about it remains random. In the process I’ve inadvertently produced a document of sorts, one that redefines the abstractions of aging architecture and its environs, the detritus of a former glory peaking through industrial cracks and weatheredness. The human hand and Mother Nature play tug-of-war. These pictures are virtually patterned in real then digitally recomposed just slightly, like a musical score. Unique relationships, between the organic and the fabricated emerge and subtly map an intersection between the experiential and the concrete. When images are paired and viewed through a broad filter certain assumptions about public vs. private space are re-contextualized. In this search my new work takes a step back, using its own ‘code’ to compose the intangible, or perhaps infer a conceptual narrative.
TJ Norris
Winter ‘10
EDUCATION
Massachusetts College of Art / Boston, MA / BFA Photography, 1985-89 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Exchange Program / Halifax, NS, Canada, 1988
CURATORIAL
SQFT, Curator (Egyptian Theater, Boise, ID, 2009; Blackfish Gallery, Portland, 2009, other locations tba) The Grid, Curator (MP5³ /Milepost 5, Portland, OR 2009) .meta, Curator (Linfield College Gallery, McMinville, OR, 2008)
4th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Curator (Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, 2008) *
invisible.other, Curator (New American Art Union, Portland, OR, 2007)
Live/Work Space (Video), NW Institute for Social Change, 2008 (Portland, OR) Pecha Kucha, Shift Lecture (w/Chas Bowie), 2008 (Portland, OR) The Future of Live/Work for Artists: A Conversation, Milepost5, 2008 (Portland, OR) Decibel Festival, Optical Program, 2008 (Seattle, WA) Caldera Arts Center Residency, 2008 (Sisters, OR) PNCA MFA Mentor, 2008 (Portland, OR)
Mutek, June 2007 (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
PNCA Senior Project Critiques, 2005-08 (Portland, OR) Decibel Festival, September 2005 (Seattle, WA) Intransitive Festival of Electronic Music, May 2004 (Boston, MA)
BOARD/AFFILIATIONS
Newspace Center for Photography Advisory Board, 2006-Present Gallery Homeland Advisory Board, 2005-06 Beaverton Arts Commission, 2005-06 Photo Lucida/Critical Mass, Reviewer, 2003-08 Soundvision, Gallery Director, 2002-03 United South End Artists, Member 1997-2001 Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression (affiliated with Mobius, Boston), 1990-2001
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS *solo
2010Neon Gallery*, Brosarp, Sweden; Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR
2009Miami Art Exchange Gallery, Miami FL; Beppu Wiarda Gallery, Portland, OR; Bureau for Open Culture @ Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH; Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR
2008New American Art Union*, Portland, OR; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; GalleryHomeland, Portland, OR; Photo Septiembre, San Antonio, TX
2007Boise State Visual Arts Center, Boise, ID;Portland Art Center, OR; The Art Institute, OR; New American Art Union, Portland, OR; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR; Artists Space, New York, NY; Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
2005Chambers Gallery, Portland, OR*; Atom-Heart, Montreal Canada*; Fresh Trouble, Portland, OR
2004Luke & A Gallery, London, UK; Reed College/PCAC, OR
2003Haze Gallery, Portland, OR; Soundvision*, Portland, OR, The Best Coast, Portland, OR; Southeast Museum, Brewster, NY;
Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, OR
2002Charlie White Gallery, Portland, OR 2001Leslie-Lohman Gallery, New York, NY;
Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
1999LGBT Museum Project, New York , NY 1998Boston Center For The Arts, Boston, MA 1997International Place, Boston, MA; Boston
Center For The Arts, Boston, MA 1996Brewhouse Gallery-Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA 1995The New Art Center, Newton, MA 1994Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA 1993Artists Foundation Gallery, Boston, MA;
Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais, MN
1992The Space, Boston, MA; University Art Museum, SUNY/Binghamton, NY; Laura Knott Art Gallery*/Bradford College, MA; Cyclorama/BCA, Boston, MA
1991Somerville Museum*, Somerville, MA; Howard Yezerski Gallery & Gallery Naga, Boston, MA; NH Experimental Works Studio, Goffstown, NH
1990Alchemie Gallery, Boston, MA; Boston Center for the Arts*, Boston, MA; Laura Knott Art Gallery, Bradford, MA; Alchemie Gallery, Boston, MA; Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, MD 1989: Harbor Gallery*, UMass/Boston; Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1988Cyclorama/BCA, Boston, MA; Tower Gallery/MassArt, Boston, MA
PUBLISHED WORKS
Double|Exposure, 2009 (self-published, ltd ed) Of Other Spaces, 2009 (Catalogue; Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, OH) Beyond Trend, 2008 (F+W Publications, Cincinnati, OH)
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Fall Catalogue, 2007 (Portland, OR)
One Shot/Visual Codec, 2007 (Seattle, WA)
triMIX CD/DVD, 2006 (Innova Recordings/American Composers Forum, St. Paul, MN)
The Creative Impulse, 1989 (MassArt Critical Studies Dept., Boston, MA)
TELEVISION/RADIO/PODCAST
unBlogged (self-produced podcast, 2008, ongoing) Art Focus w/Julie Bernard (KBOO-FM, 6/08) Continental In[di]visibility – curated radio broadcast (ResonanceFM, 104.4FM, London, 04/08) Oregon Art Beat (OPB Broadcasting, 12/07)
Miami Art Exchange w/Onajídé Shabaka (Podcast, 12/07)
Art Focus w/Julie Bernard (KBOO-FM, 8/06)
Art Focus w/Julie Bernard (KBOO-FM, 6/05)
Art Star w/Eva Lake (KPSU-FM, 11/04)
AWARDS
Photolucida, Oregon Finalist, 2008 New American Art Union, Couture Stipend, 2008
GRGRF, Inc., 1999-2000 / Annual Community Grants (for “notahairouttaplace”) New England Open Studio: The Arts Online, 1999 / NEFA (through the Benton Foundation) LOOKOUT Video Festival, 1992 / Auto-Porto-Matic, for DCTV/NY Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant, 1991 / Somerville Arts Council John R. Graham Award, 1989 / Through the Looking Glass exhibition Recognition Award, 1988 / 5th Annual Recognition Ceremony / Massachusetts College of Art
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Fuller Museum of Art The Museum de la Ciudad (Mexico) Faulkner Hospital @ Centre House, Boston, MA Chase Brexton Clinic, Baltimore, MD Non-Print Collection/NSCAD, Halifax, NS, Canada Linea-Aveda Salon, Boston, MA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Ian Henderson and Randy Adkins, Beaverton, OR David Adams, Portland, OR
Chris Ransdell, Portland, OR Hilary Pfeifer, Portland, OR
Diedrich & Nancy Dasenbrock, Portland, OR
Eric Olsen, Portland, OR
Marguerite Kissane, New York, NY
Clay Graham, Portland, OR
David J. Tufts, Atlanta, GA
Mark E. Breeze, Cambridge, MA
Hilary Meyerson, Seattle, WA
Natalie Peeterse, Missoula, MT
David Stein, Portland, OR
Suniti Dernovsek, Portland, OR
C. James Brown, Milwaukee, OR
Rachel Denny, Portland, OR
Jenene Nagy, Portland, OR
Jesse Hayward, Portland, OR
Ellen George, Vancouver, WA
Philip Iosca, Portland, OR
Scott Buchanan, New York, NY
Cary Doucette, Portland, OR
Wid Chambers, Portland, OR
Rod D. Michaels, MD, Salem, OR
Justin Oswald, Portland, OR
Mary Ann Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR Marcia Bizon, Portland, OR Christine Decker, Portland, OR Micheal O'Hagen, Boston, MA Barbara Mirman, Boston, MA John C. Heurtley, Rochester, NY E. Ciaramitaro, Rochester, NH Tina Cuccinotti, Hollywood, CA Thom Fitzgerald, Montreal, Canada Andrew Ellis, San Francisco, CA Kim Airs, Los Angeles, CA Sr. T. Norris, Manchester, NH B. Dutille, Boston, MA Dr. Daniel Jacobs, Brookline, MA Ethan Thomas, Somerville, MA P Kennedy/R Bellman, Arlington, MA Kieran O'Leary, Brooklyn, NY Charlie Kohlhase, Malden, MA R.Hyde, Somerville, MA Phyllis Whiting, Everett, MA San Shoppel, Los Angeles, CA L. Pascale, Cambridge, MA Peter Madden, Boston, MA R. Kelley, Jr., Wakefield, MA David E. Walther, Roslindale, MA C. Hammond, Jamaica Plain, MA
REGULAR/PAST CONTRIBUTOR
ARTnews (New York, NY), Igloo Magazine (Orange, CA), IDIO Magazine (Essex, UK), Vital Weekly (Nijmeghen, the Netherlands), Signal to Noise Magazine (Houston, TX), E|I Magazine (Woodcliff Lake NJ), Repellent Magazine (New York, NY), Paris Transatlantic (Paris, France), Grooves Magazine (Voorhees, NJ), Brainwashed (Arlington, MA), Dusted Magazine (Brooklyn, NY), Just Out (Portland, OR)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Art Under Glass, Dana Oland, Idaho Statesman, 11/09 The Grid at Milepost 5, Lisa Radon, Portland Monthly Magazine, 8/09 Artist Live/Work Community Dream Survives, Kristi Turnquist, The Oregonian, 8/09 The Manor of Art, Alley Hector, QPDX, 8/09
Some Late Breaking News, Barry Johnson, The Oregonian/Portland Art Watch, 8/09
Premios Dardo Award, Bob Hicks, Art Scatter, 1/09
Aiding Culture Through Couture, Richard Speer, Art LTD Magazine, 1/09
Browse Worthy, Barry Johnson, The Oregonian/Portland Art Watch, 1/09 Installation of the Year, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 12/08 Caution: Artists At Work, Barry Johnson, Art Scatter, 8/08 Infinitus, Richard Speer, Art LTD Magazine, 7/08 Infinitus, John Motley, Portland Mercury, 6/08 Signs and No-Signs, Barry Johnson, Art Scatter, 6/08 Chaos Mimic Metropolis, Victoria Blake, The Oregonian, 5/08 The Aftermath of Experience, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 5/08 He Makes An Art Out Of Urban Walking, Nancy Dow, The Oregonian, 3/08 Escape Artists, David Jasper, The Bend Bulletin, 2/08 Pisszine (Issue 3), 2008 (Pisszine.org,, Milan, Italy)
Drawn to Talent, Selling a Vision, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, 12/07
Welcome to Miami: Art Basel Miami Beach, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 12/07
On the Verge: Emerging artists offer more than meets the eye, Victor Maldonado, PDX Magazine, 11/07
Supporting arts, right at its roots, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, 10/07
M_US_EUM, John Motley, Portland Mercury, 9/07
Shows of Note, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, 6/07
Subtle arts, subtle effects, Rachel Neugarten, The Oregonian, 4/07
Invisible.Other, John Motley, Portland Mercury, 4/07
Invisible.other, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 4/07
Talking with Ghosts, Arcy Douglas, Port, 4/07
Invisible.other, Joseph Gallivan, Portland Tribune, 4/06
Grey|Area, Avantika Bawa, Big, Red & Shiny, 8/06 Grey|Area, John Motley, Portland Mercury, 7/06 Beauty to the max, minimally, D.K. Row, The Oregonian, 6/06
Shades of Gray, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 6/06 He/She: Interview, Lisa Radon, UltraPDX, 6/06 Artist Blows Up Images in Nucleo, Timothy Krause, Just Out, 11/05 Nucleo, Chas Bowie, Portland Mercury, 11/05 Artist keeps head in the clouds, kicks us in the gut, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 11/05
TJ Norris' Nucleo at Chambers Gallery, Jeff Jahn, Port, 11/05 Genometrics, Tribryd Part One, Chas Bowie, Portland Mercury, 10/03 One Review, Richard Speer, Willamette Week, 10/03 Resonant Soundscapes Shape Installation, Morgan Currie, The Oregonian, 9/03 So Long, Soundvision, Lisa Bradshaw, Just Out, 9/03 You Must Stumble As You Climb, Bob McDiarmid, Versimilitude, 6/03 Man With A Soundvision, Jodi Darbi, Just Out, 11/02 Making Art A Life’s Work, Timothy Holmes, South End News, 9/00 Happy Large/Mondo Gay, Leif Eiriksson. Babalonia Magazine (Italy), 4/99 Legal Stimulants/Visual Arts, American Bear Magazine, 5/99 Bear Market, Heather Calomese. New York Blade, 4/99 Taking to Wings, Shawn Hill. Bay Windows, 9/97 Somehody Was Naked, Scott Farmelant. Improper Bostonian 10/97 Breaking the Mold (regional reviews), Alicia Faxon. Art New England, 8-9/93 Breaking the Mold- Hands-On Approach to Art, Nancy Stapen. Boston Globe, 5/93 Precious Confines, Tom Grabosky. Bay Windows, 6/92 Sex Lives & Audio Tape, Shawn Hill. Bay Windows, 1/91 Making Sense with Different Senses, Amy Miller. Cambridge Chronicle, 5/91 Uncommon Senses Puts Viewer in Touch, Nancy Stapen. Boston Globe, 5/91 Down and Dirty, Cate McQuaid. South End News, 8/90 Love Lives, Shawn Hill. Bay Windows, 8/90 Photographers Explore Self in Many Forms, Joanne Silver. Boston Herald, 7/90 Spaced Out by Tom Grabosky. Bay Windows, 3/90 Complementary Art at Harbor Gallery, Mary E. Lind. The Mass Media, 3/89
