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Norman Epp is a Fine Art sculptor based out of Denver, Colorado whose conceptual sculpture expresses the Contemporary Art of Conceptual Realism. Created from reclaimed materials and friendly to environment, this contemporary sculpture based upon Earth’s natural forms, yet holding figurative motif, nurtures a spiritual concept that “being human is to actively be "one with nature".
Muse asks, “What does an emotion look like through multi-dimension perspectives”. Mindfulness inquires into what visual forms encompass a specific idea. Formal nuances manipulating metaphor tug at sensualities of mind. Since childhood my bones have been pulled towards Earth-Being. Creation embraces my soul. Nature’s discarded fragments find my studio. Earth calls out to Humanity. Bones of Earth quiver for attention from their corners. Muse beckons from within the void. Spirit reaches towards fragmentational awareness. Earth-Bone-Pieces speak slowly. Ego wants to know. Passion rises, creative energy stirs. Ahadows of ideas subtly move the air. Fragments, thoughts, tools, process, self – we have our time of struggle - These bones of creation conjure up expressive forms of Spirit sensibility. Earth’s feral spirit impregnates soulfulness - merging form to concept. Birthing of a sculpture emotionally tying human experience as natural. Sending a mysteriously energized sensual invitation, “earth to humanity”. Muse stirs on, those misty energies at the studio’s depths. |
1951 |
Birth, rural Marion, South Dakota |
1998 - |
Residence, Wheat Ridge Colorado |
| Education | |
1995 |
MFA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
1979 |
BA Art, Bethel College, N. Newton, KS |
| Teaching | |
1998 - 03 |
University of Colorado, Denver; Drawing, Design |
1997 - 98 |
University of Wisconsin, Parkside; Sculpture, Drawing |
1996 - 97 |
Mesa College, Tucumcari, New Mexico; Sculpture, Drawing |
1991 - 96 |
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Sculpture |
| Selected Exhibitions | |
2011 |
Walker Fine Art, Horizons: Shades From a Netherworld, Denver, CO |
2009 |
Walker Fine Art, Touching The Infinite, Denver, CO |
2007 |
Walker Fine Art, Norman Epp, Denver, CO |
2004 |
Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Re:Built, Curated - Jina Pearce, Pueblo, CO |
2003 |
Walker Fine Art, Alchemy, Denver, CO Judish Fine Arts, Forms of Spirit, Denver, CO |
2001 |
Foothills Art Center, Colorado Art Open Exhibition, Golden, CO Dyck Arboretum, Hesston, KS |
2000 |
Hesston College, Spirit Vessels, Hesston, KS Foot Hills Art Center, North American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden, CO |
1997 |
William Fairfield Foundation, Sturgeon Bay, WI |
1995 |
Riverwest Art Association, Carving Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI |
1994 |
Union Gallery, Reading Art, (Artist Book Exhibition), Milwaukee, WI Albrecht-Kemper Museum, Reinterpreting the Land, Curated- Jan Nelson, St. Joseph, MO |
1993 |
Center for Great Plains Studies, Reinterpreting the Land, Curated-Jan Nelson, UN-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE |
1992 |
Rockford Art Museum, Vicinity Exhibition, Rockford, IL |
1991 |
Mulvane Art Center, Kansas Ten, KS Arts Commission, Topeka, KS UWM System, State of Sculpture, Milwaukee, WI |
1990 |
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL Salina Arts Center, 11th Annual Exhibition, Salina, KS |
1989-90 |
Traveling Exhibition, Visions of Shalom, Curated-Lombard Peace Center Mennonite World Conference, Winnipeg, Canada Peoples Place Gallery, Intercourse, PA Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries, Elkhart, IN Lombard Peace Center, Lombard, IL |
1989 |
San Bernardino County Museum, 24th Annual Exhibition, San Bernardino, CA |
1988 |
Contemporary Southwestern Art, Curated /SUNY- Potsdam, NY Tyler Art Gallery, SUNY - Oswego, Oswego, NY Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY- Potsdam, Potsdam, NY Michael C. Rockefeller Art Center, Fredonia College, NY Bethel College, N. Newton, KS |
1984 |
Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM Concepts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
1981 |
Durango Art Association, Durango, CO |
1980 |
Goshen College, Mennonite Artists Contemporary, Goshen, IN |
1979 |
Southwestern College, Winfield, KS |
1978 |
Spiva '78, Joplin, MO |
| Public Collections | |
| Prairie Arboretum, Freeman, SD | |
| Dyck Arboretum, Hesston, KS | |
| Ron Gallegos & CO, Loveland, CO | |
| William Fairfield Foundation, Sturgeon Bay, WI | |
| H. J. Born Stone Co., Arkansas City, KS | |
| Manz Library, Bethel College, N. Newton, KS | |
