kimberley norcott

UNTITLED (peaceful)

2010-01-03T18:34:00.005-05:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)

LIGHT PORTRAITS

2009-07-19T20:22:00.002-04:00

Today we see formulated images of people everywhere, they say something of the subject through physical appearance, expression, fashion, etc. Physical semiotics are something that each and every one of us have through no volition of our own, but through the need to survive in our society. What we are less familiar with is 'reading' and evaluating people by their emotional and spiritual state.

I am exploring the portrait through the aura. Pop culture and pop science have given the general populous a brief understanding of what an aura is, we all know that a person's aura is a reading of their spiritual and emotional state, we know that colors are meant to signify different traits etc. Using this popular understanding along with more in-depth research I have created my portrait of a subject in my impression of their aura. I do not see their aura, but it is my portrait of it. To do this I have taken a base photographic image and used light painting to create the effect of visible aura and reveal my interpretation of these truths to the viewer.

A triangle is created with this effect as aura is translated by means of sensual blurs of color, and as in the experimentation of color field artists such as Marc Rothko, who understood that people experience emotional reactions to color. These portraits, that become landscapes of color, create in turn an emotional reaction in the viewer.

INITIATIONS - STUDIES

2009-07-19T20:21:00.001-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)

MANIFESTO

2009-07-19T20:20:00.005-04:00

MANIFESTO SERIES
xerox > digital prints

new ideas are raw, information circulating the streets comes in the form on fliers, zines, pamphlets, photocopied collections of thought. these communications can be aggressive, disorganized and overlooked, but they hold within them a new universe.

THE KISS : TRIPTYCHS

2009-07-19T20:19:00.000-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)
THE KISS is, first and foremost, a gesture of love and unity. It is also a gesture of sealing or possession, of indicating the establishment of an intimate personal link, which will persist even after the physical contact has ended.

THE KISS 1 & THE KISS 2
documentation photos from private performance
40" x 40" each
2008

EVERYONE WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN BUT NOBODY WANTS TO DIE

2009-07-19T20:10:00.003-04:00

INITIATIONS - A STUDY

2009-07-19T19:27:00.004-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)

EVERYONE WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN BUT NOBODY WANTS TO DIE

2009-07-19T19:21:00.008-04:00

IN A SENSE SOMETHING BETWEEN GOD AND NAUGHT

2009-07-19T19:09:00.007-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)
IN A SENSE SOMETHING BETWEEN GOD AND NAUGHT

wooden box, black velvet, golden hair, golden clip with two diamonds, glass, document

10.5" by 6" by 4"

2005

EVERYONE WANTS TO GO TO HEAVEN BUT NOBODY WANTS TO DIE

2009-07-19T19:01:00.006-04:00

THE LAW

2009-07-19T18:31:00.005-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)

THE KISS

2009-07-19T18:25:00.013-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)
THE KISS is, first and foremost, a gesture of love and unity. It is also a gesture of sealing or possession, of indicating the establishment of an intimate personal link, which will persist even after the physical contact has ended.

THE KISS
documentation from private perfomance
12 x 12" prints x sequence of 12

NUTOPIA REVISITED

2009-07-19T18:23:00.012-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)

NUTOPIA REVISITED
portrait take at : Nutopian Embassy
One White Street, New York, New York, USA, 10013
photograph & note : yoko ono

BELIEVE ME : THE DUST ISSUE

2009-07-19T18:08:00.006-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)

270305 : THE POPE

2009-07-19T17:54:00.010-04:00

(in collaboration with Panos Tsagaris)
a custom white leatherette box, lined with black satin, containing three photos taken during the Pope's 2005 easter blessing when an inability to speak brought him to tears.

KIMBERLEY MARIA NORCOTT - BIO/CV

2009-07-19T16:24:00.006-04:00

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

EDUCATION
EMILY CARR INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN, vancouver, canada - BA Art & Design - 2004
CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE, london, england - 2002
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, victoria, canada - Fine Arts program - 1997

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
THEANTHROPIC, new york, new york - Up&Co Gallery - 2005

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DOWN BELOW IT'S CHAOS, new york, new york - 50 Eldridge Space - 2009

I AM THE SUN IN HIS RISING, athens, greece - Kalfayan Galleries - 2008

OUR SPACE, hong kong, china - Cream Editions 5th Anniversary, curated by Irene Leung - 2007

PREVIEW BERLIN ART FAIR, berlin, germany - Galerie Davide Gallo - 2006

CROSBY STREET ART PROJECT, new york, new york - The Apartment, curated by Tairone Bastien - 2006

OTHER WORLDS , london, england - Fashion & Textile Museum - 2002

kim norcott has been reviewed for - CREAM (hk), Slash (nyc) magazines.