Annie Norbeck (b 1979, Chicago suburbs, US) is an oil painter exploring the environment. Depending on the subject or emotion being conveyed, her work veers from representation to abstraction. Norbeck holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited work in the northeast and virtually, and is held in private collections in the US, and internationally. Norbeck maintains a studio at Manufacturers Village, East Orange, NJ.
Chorography is the art of describing an area or region of land, historically ascribed to mapmaking. I borrow from this tradition to paint biased reconstructions of the natural world through the lens of appropriation.
Through non-representational paintings I explore mass, color, line, and the horizon. Layers evolve, often against the construct of the horizon. I define mass and line, and then build and remove layers in a physical manner; wiping, scraping, scumbling. The action of painting allows me to explore how we remember and forget information and history.
