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Nora SeeLe Fantasme (after Kees van Dongen)2016
2016
About the Item
Nora See is a New Orleans artist. She earned a BFA at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., a JD at Tulane Law School in New Orleans and an MFA at the University of New Orleans.
Her work has been exhibited in a variety of venues, including the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, D.C., The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, CA.
Although Nora is a full time artist, she satiates her varied interests with multiple projects. In 2003, she integrated her artistic interests into her legal career by opening a gallery for inmate crafted art in The Justice Center, New Orleans, the subject of a Times Picayune article, “Gallery will Feature Inmate Crafted Art.” More recently, Nora’s love of film and television led her to work on the crew of American Horror Story: Coven. Halloween of 2014 was a busy season for Nora, with the construction of her Madame Leota Living Statue costume (pictured left), a tribute to her obsession with Disney World. She is presently continuing work on both the Framed series as well as a new, as of yet, unveiled series.
artist statement
"'Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.' A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment: 'Ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms.' In the Framed Series, I use my 1% contribution to combine issues of consumption with my autobiography.
I paint copies of copies of paintings within paintings to reference the appropriation, commodification, and altered continuum of art. My paintings of paintings are based on photographs of originals to perpetuate the continual distillation of form, given the ease with which images are presently exchanged and modified. Further, by reducing historically significant paintings to framed objects hanging on walls, I augment art as a commodity and reconcile the conflict between the artificially assigned monetary value of artworks with the reality that they are simply swirls of paint. In this way, I am also acknowledging the literality of my own work.
I have also altered each copied painting to personalize the context of the pieces and address specific autobiographical ideas. These ideas relate to a range of both recent and distant experiences, both funny and sad.
Although my initial renderings are digital image composites, my medium of choice is oil paint, applied in transparent layers, using the image on the computer screen as a reference. In addition to its lush visual properties, I enjoy the flexibility of oil paint in making acute renderings as well as the evolution of the imagery from paint to digital and back to paint in further protracting both the distillation and evolution of form."
- Creator:Nora See (American)
- Creation Year:2016
- Dimensions:Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1052919163
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