NORMA GREENWOOD has always perceived the world through tactile experience and physical objects, Her sense that the things that surround her exert a strong and palpable energy has guided her path. The language of painting allows her to communicate this experience and transform objects into an asthetic statement. As a painter, Greenwood’s inspiration often comes from the way she sees the world through the lens. Her photographs are distilled through the painting process and the painting becomes a means for pushing the boundary between abstraction and figurative expression.Greenwood recalls, “ I suppose I was born into painting. My grandfather’s paint store in Brooklyn was my favorite place to play; Shiny paint cans, tubes of color and the smell of linseed oil permeating the store were imprinted on me at a very early age.” Art has always defined her life.
Greenwood has a graduate degree in Fine Arts from Hunter College, New York where she had the good fortune to study with masters such as Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes. She is the recipient of three grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Abby Austin Mural Arts Fellowship from the National Academy Museum. Additionally, she received a George Sugarman Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein grant and the Queens Council on the Arts Individual Artists Initiative Award in In 2008, she was commissioned by the Jacksonville, Fl. Airport Authority to design and install two murals fabricated with mosaic tile titled: “CLOUDSCAPES”. “CLOUDSCAPES” is installed in Terminal A of the Jacksonville Airport. She was an MTA Arts For Transit finalist. Greenwood is a public access producer of documentaries that highlight the history of Queens, NY. This year, she was awarded a NYFA Workshop Award, “Artist As Entrepreneur Bootcamp”.
NORMA GREENWOOD had had several solo exhibitions and her work is represented in private and public collections including AT&T, Citicorp, CUNY Art Gallery, the Museum of American Folk Art and Columbia Pictures Ltd.
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