Apocalypse House Newsletter, May 14, 2012
Topics:
1. Museum of
Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI: Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award
ceremony, 1:30 PM, May 20, 2012 (recipient, Norbert H. Kox, et
al).
2. Tucson, Arizona, Sacred Machine Museum:
"Beyond the Sacred," May 11 through July 31, 2012.
3. Chicago, Illinois: HEAVEN and HELL, February 10 through
June 30, 2012, Free and open to the public.
4. Apocalypse House book by Norbert H. Kox.
5. Norbert H.
Kox print, The End of Days.
Dear
friends,
1. You are invited to attend the Wisconsin
Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony, for Norbert H. Kox
(et al).
Sunday, May
20th at 1:30 pm, 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
Awards ceremony will be held at the Museum of Wisconsin Art on Sunday, May 20th
at 1:30pm. Founded in 2004 as a collaboration between the MWA, Wisconsin
Painters and Sculptors/Artists in All Media (now Wisconsin Visual Artists) and
the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the WVALAA are essentially
the in-state "Hall of Fame" for individuals, groups and organizations who have
supported the visual arts with distinction.
This
year, the group of 14 honorees includes you, Terese Agnew, Kent Anderson,
Prophet William Blackmon, Karen Johnson Boyd, Fred Fenster, Denis Kitchen,
Frances Myers, Native American Petroglyphs, Anton Rajer, Simon Sparrow, Jean
Stamsta, Evelyn Patricia Terry and William
Weege.
We would
like to invite you to accept this prestigious award on Sunday, May 20th at the
Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend. ...
Graeme Reid
Assistant Director
Museum of Wisconsin Art
300 South 6th Avenue
West Bend, WI 53095
262-334-9638
262-334-8080 fax
he ceremony is
here at the MWA on Sunday, May 20th at 1:30 pm.
This from
artinwisconsin.com:
Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime
Achievement Awards (WVALAA) will be Sunday, May 20, 2012 at the Museum of
Wisconsin Art (MWA) in West Bend, WI. The program starts at 1:30 with guest
speaker Tom Jones, assistant professor of photography at UW- Madison. His talk
is “People of the Big Voice: A Personal View.” Following the talk will be the
WVALAA presentations. The public is welcome. There will be a
reception following the presentations in the MWA front gallery.
WVALAA was founded in 2004 as
a collaboration between the MWA, Wisconsin Visual Artists (WVA), and the
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Awards are essentially the
in-state “Hall of Fame” for individuals, groups and organizations who have
supported the visual arts with distinction. The 2012 WVALAA co- chairs are
Graeme Reid from MWA, Randall Brendt from the Wisconsin Academy, and Christine
Style from WVA. The WVALAA selection committee consisted of 15 Wisconsin art
professionals. The 2012 WVALAA was made possible with financial support from the
three WVA chapters, ABEA (African American Artists Beginning to Educate
Americans About African-American Art), AC Art Association and the League of
Milwaukee Artists, along with support from the Museum of Wisconsin Art, the
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, and individual donors. To
learn more about WVALAA visit their website:
www.wvalaa.com.
The 2012 WVALAA honorees include:
Kent Anderson, Prophet William Blackmon, Johnson Boyd, Fred Fenster, Denis
Kitchen, Norbert Kox, Frances Meyers, Native American Petroglyphs, Simon
Sparrow, Jean Stamsta, Tony Rajer (WVA member), Evelyn Patricia Terry (WVA
member), William Weege.
WVA congratulates the honorees & their families.
2.
Tucson, Arizona, Sacred Machine Museum: "Beyond the Sacred," May 11
through July 31, 2012.
Norbert Kox: Check out "Beyond The
Sacred", at Sacred Machine gallery (Tucson) and see my new piece, "The Star Of
Daniel", http://www.sacredmachine.com/images/beyond/beyond/05.jpg
Museum site and show,
http://www.sacredmachine.com/
My painting,
The Star Of Daniel, is based on an energy pattern that
was revealed to me on my travels to the Island of Bimini, and is called the
Divine System Of Spontaneous Regeneration. It is the Tree Of Life, or Plan Of
Life, and reveals the image of a person and the possibility of various body
positions within the "temple". When the energy lines of the sefirot (sacred
spheres) are extended in all directions from the Tree Of Life they crisscross to
form a 24-point star (an 8-point star within a 16-point star). From there the
lines continue to infinity without ever crossing again.
Sacred Machine Museum
245 E. Congress Suite 123
Tucson, AZ 85701
520-777-7403
New Hours: Wed-Fri 5-8, Sat 4-9
By
Appointment: 520-977-7102
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).
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. Apocalypse House Books, A
SPECK OF ATLANTIS - BIMINI: THE TOP OF GOD'S MOUNTAIN, by
visionary artist Norbert H. Kox, 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
(including esoteric energy paintings) 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.
The Picture Perfect Jesus series was created in Bimini (2003-2004).
Many of those images are included in A SPECK
OF ATLANTIS - BIMINI: THE TOP OF GOD'S MOUNTAIN. Several of the images have
appeared in the Raw vision article mentioned below, along with a detailed
description of how they came to be:
"Masquerade" is an article by Professor 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. ..."
5. 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
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