Andrew Norris

 Andrew Norris is a queer artist capturing queer identity through his art. He works in oil paint, a medium famous for having been used by "the greats" of art throughout history. Not only this, but his work often shares features of famous paintings, with queer icons, cartoon characters, comic books, celebrities, and other pop culture imagery added to the foreground. In this way, his art adds commentary about who has been visibly excluded from the cannon of art. He asserts with his paintings that queer expression is unique, valid, and worthwhile. His work also depicts the types of people who, until recent years, could not be visible as their authentic selves.


PictureID: Friends of Dorothy (from left to right) Persephone, Orpheus, Cassandra, Narcissus, 2021, installation view. Four oil paintings with bright, vivid color depicting queer subjects hang on a white wall. Source: https://www.andrewnorrisart.com/

As a queer person, I really haven't examined my relationship with pop culture and grabbing onto any representation I could find in my youth. Andrew Norris' work inspires me to think more deeply about that.


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