Apocalypse House Newsletter, March 28, 2012
Topics:
1. Art Paris 2012, Grand Palais - Stand E 21, March 29 - 1 April, 2012
2. Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI: Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, May 20, 2012 (Norbert H. Kox recipient).
3. Chicago, Illinois: HEAVEN and HELL, February 10 through June 30, 2012, Free and open to the public.
4. Los Angeles, CA: "LALUZAPALOOZA" EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCHEN SYNC Vol. XV (Exhibiting March 2 - April 1, 2012)
5. Apocalypse House book by Norbert H. Kox.
6. Norbert H. Kox print.
Dear friends,
1. See Norbert H. Kox artwork at Art Paris, represented by Galerie Toxic, Luxembourg.
Art Paris 2012
Grand Palais - Stand E 21
March 29 - 1 April, 2012
If you are in Paris during Art Paris please be sure to visit the Galerie Toxic booth and meet Armand Hein.
Contact Armand Hein a.hein@voila.fr
Galerie Toxic website, www.galerietoxic.com
2. You are invited to attend the Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, for Norbert H. Kox (and others) May 20, 2012, at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend, WI.
The following notes from Graeme Reid, Assistant Director:
Dear Norbert,
I hope this finds you well. It gives me great pleasure to tell you that you have been awarded a Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award. This is an award, given annually since 2004, to artists, patrons and administrators who have excelled in their support for the arts in the state. Please go to www.wvalaa.com for more information on the awards and past recipients. [The first recipient of this honor, in 2004, was the late Frank Lloyd Wright]
The ceremony is here at the MWA on Sunday, May 20th at 1:30 pm.
Graeme Reid
Assistant Director
Museum of Wisconsin Art
300 South 6th Avenue
West Bend, WI 53095
262-334-9638
262-334-8080 fax
3. You are invited to HEAVEN+HELL. Free and open to the public. (Norbert Kox is represented in both sections, with a total of seven of his Apocalyptic Visual Parables).
Chicago: Heaven and Hell, February 10 - June 30, 2012. http://www.art.org/
The themes of heaven and hell are frequently addressed in outsider and intuitive art. Outsider artists’ perspectives range from illustrative, word-laden drawings to stylized, sculptural versions of figurative images that populate their perceptions of the heavenly and the hellish. Self-taught and outsider artists often use the themes of heaven and hell not as concepts, but as broad visualizations that may be invented, drawn from popular media or the Bible, or influenced by their religious upbringing. HEAVEN+HELL seeks to explore the breadth of expression in self-taught art with these themes in mind. The exhibition will feature work by American artists such as Minnie Evans (1892-1987), Howard Finster (1916-2001), William Edmondson (c. 1870-1951), Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-1980), William Blayney (1918-1985), and Norbert Kox (1945 – ), among many others.
Co-curated by Jan Petry, Exhibitions Chair at Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art and Molly Tarbell, Exhibition Curator, Loyola University Museum of Art, the exhibition features 165 works of art by 54 artists as well as several anonymous works. This exhibition is accompanied by a 36-page catalog with an essay by Jerry Bleem, a Franciscan Friar, Catholic Priest, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The catalog is available at both venues for $12. http://www.art.org/
4. La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: "LALUZAPALOOZA" EVERYTHING BUT THE KITSCHEN SYNC Vol. XV (Exhibiting March 2 - April 1, 2012)
The annual Kitschen Sync show is a gigantic, no-theme exhibition that consistently features work from the freshest and most relevant artists working today.
(Including work by Norbert H. Kox)
Laluzapalooza, Vol. XV of the Greatest Group Show on Earth
Opening Reception: Friday, March 2nd, 8-11 pm
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
phone: 323-666-7667
email: info@laluzdejesus.com
Proprietor: Billy Shire
Director: Matt Kennedy
Hours:
11 to 7 PM Monday to Wednesday
11 to 9 PM Thursday to Saturday
Noon to 6 PM on Sunday
The gallery is located inside the Soap Plant/Wacko complex.
5. The newest Apocalypse House book, A SPECK OF ATLANTIS - BIMINI: THE TOP OF GOD'S MOUNTAIN, by visionary artist Norbert H. Kox is now available (8 1/2 x 11 paperback, 118 pages, 149 color images, printed in USA on archival paper) http://nkox.homestead.com/BooksByNHK.html This writing connects the last remaining speck of Atlantis with a tiny island in the Atlantic called Bimini, and presents many of the artworks created by Kox on the Island over a period of eleven years. Along with the Apocalyptic Visual Parable paintings inspired directly by the Bimini setting - including esoteric energy paintings. The Picture Perfect Jesus series (painted in Bimini) is also included in this volume.
Many of the Picture Perfect Jesus images are included in A SPECK OF ATLANTIS - BIMINI: THE TOP OF GOD'S MOUNTAIN. Several of the images appeared in the Raw vision article mentioned below, along with a detailed description of how they came to be:
"Masquerade" is an article by David Damkoehler, in the Raw Vision 2008 Winter Issue #65 (December), about Norbert H. Kox's artworks depicting Warner Sallman's Head Of Christ. Damkoehler offers insights into understanding the subversive imagery in Kox's paintings: "In 1992 Norbert H. Kox inherited a framed print, a portrait of Christ that had hung in a prominent position in his parents' home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This portrait was to inspire a series of skillfully executed works that exploit visual and textual puns to illustrate Kox's deeply skeptical attitude towards organized religion. ..."
6. The controversial painting by Norbert H. Kox, titled, "The End of Days," is available in prints of various sizes on paper or canvas. If you are interested please follow this link: http://www.zazzle.com/mrnoah*
Thank you for your kind interest,
Apocalypse House
www.ApocalypseHouse.com
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