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EAT ME Norma Markley, "3 bananas (sometimes a banana is just a banana)"
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Norma Markley, "3 bananas (sometimes a banana is just a banana)"

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Neon

30” x 6” x 3”

2008

STATEMENT

It is the clash or intersection of sex and Americana that I paint with cut paper, draw with thread, or write with the glow of neon tubing. I coax these incongruous elements until they sit well together. I am re-presenting leftover relics of a bygone time, now distilled and haunting.

BIO

Norma Markley received her BA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Columbia University. Her most recent solo show was “paved X and leisurely looping Z,” Y Gallery (2016). Her first solo show, “Highway X,” was at Shores Space in the heart of the Red Light District in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2000). She has participated in many group exhibitions, most recently in “Up Against A Wall” at Awbury Arboretum (Phil, PA, 2021), the online exhibit ‘END” at Empirical Nonsense (NYC, Feb 3, 2021), and “Notions of Exile” Washington Project for the Arts (2021). Her favorite group exhibition was “Next Next: Art” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2002). Markley received a NYFA award in Drawing 2003 and a Queens Council on the Arts Grant 2008. She lives in Queens and works in Brooklyn.

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Neon

30” x 6” x 3”

2008

STATEMENT

It is the clash or intersection of sex and Americana that I paint with cut paper, draw with thread, or write with the glow of neon tubing. I coax these incongruous elements until they sit well together. I am re-presenting leftover relics of a bygone time, now distilled and haunting.

BIO

Norma Markley received her BA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Columbia University. Her most recent solo show was “paved X and leisurely looping Z,” Y Gallery (2016). Her first solo show, “Highway X,” was at Shores Space in the heart of the Red Light District in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2000). She has participated in many group exhibitions, most recently in “Up Against A Wall” at Awbury Arboretum (Phil, PA, 2021), the online exhibit ‘END” at Empirical Nonsense (NYC, Feb 3, 2021), and “Notions of Exile” Washington Project for the Arts (2021). Her favorite group exhibition was “Next Next: Art” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2002). Markley received a NYFA award in Drawing 2003 and a Queens Council on the Arts Grant 2008. She lives in Queens and works in Brooklyn.

Neon

30” x 6” x 3”

2008

STATEMENT

It is the clash or intersection of sex and Americana that I paint with cut paper, draw with thread, or write with the glow of neon tubing. I coax these incongruous elements until they sit well together. I am re-presenting leftover relics of a bygone time, now distilled and haunting.

BIO

Norma Markley received her BA from The Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Columbia University. Her most recent solo show was “paved X and leisurely looping Z,” Y Gallery (2016). Her first solo show, “Highway X,” was at Shores Space in the heart of the Red Light District in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2000). She has participated in many group exhibitions, most recently in “Up Against A Wall” at Awbury Arboretum (Phil, PA, 2021), the online exhibit ‘END” at Empirical Nonsense (NYC, Feb 3, 2021), and “Notions of Exile” Washington Project for the Arts (2021). Her favorite group exhibition was “Next Next: Art” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2002). Markley received a NYFA award in Drawing 2003 and a Queens Council on the Arts Grant 2008. She lives in Queens and works in Brooklyn.

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