Alison Norlen
Glimmer
- Publisher
- Esplanade Art Gallery, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Thunder Bay Art Gallery
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2010
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888805607
- Publish Date
- Jan 2010
- List Price
- $15.00
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Description
Feats of scale are signature to Norlen's work: exhibitions like Float engrossed viewers in massive drawings, (24 feet wide is not unknown for Norlen), that are anchored in tumultuous celebrations of carnivals, parades and amusement theme parks. These drawings and accompanying installations (Parade I, II and III, all 2001) are a veritable feast, a cacophony of sights, sounds, smells and tastes, a riot of the senses. The works demonstrate a controlled horror vacuii in which Norlen energetically juxtaposes large and small, jamming in a dancing girl figurine next to a jet plane, wheat sheaves towering over Ferris wheels and carnival lights strewn with abandon throughout. The drawings and installations are alive with a passionate and purposeful confounding of perspectival logic, and a fantastic, topsy-turvy register of sizes.