Norman Moore
Norman creates his work in his Alameda, CA studio. He studied at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, NY and has an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. Whether in the urban landscape of Brooklyn, or the marshlands of the San Francisco Bay, Norman’s work is strongly tied to place. He approaches the world as a speculative anthropologist, constructing artifacts of imagined pasts and futures which reflect the intricate entanglements between humanity and earth. From 2004 to 2023 he taught Neon and Light Sculpture at The Crucible, an art school in Oakland, CA that specializes in the industrial arts. His public art projects include 2020 Gateway to California, a permanent mosaic sculpture commissioned for Jean Sweeney Open Space Park, Alameda, CA; 2009 Constellations, a window project in collaboration with Nancy Mizuno Elliott that can be seen at the Castro Valley, CA library; and 1993 Creative Stations mosaics for New York City Arts for Transit. In the 1990s, he was an active member of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. He showed his work and collaborated with Christian Schiess from 2004 to 2024. Norman is a member of the Plasma Arts Alliance and has exhibited with them at the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, CA. He recently exhibited his small mosaic sculptures at Western Sky in Berkeley, CA in “Undercurrents”, a collaboration with dancers Carol Kueffer and ChingChi Yu. Norman participated in the Ojai, CA Kipaipai workshops in 2022 and 2023. Over the past few years, Norman has moved away from light sculpture and is focusing instead on developing a unique sculptural voice in glass mosaic and handmade paper.
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