A World of Our Own

Louisville, KY Rebecca Norton

Primarily identifying as a painter, Norton's practice to date includes a range of materials and technology. Her work is informed by a robust intrigue with color theory, a love of geometry, and an endless curiosity concerning structures of perception and the nature thereof.

Rebecca Norton is an artist, curator, and educator. She received her BFA from the University of Louisville in 2004 and her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in 2010. Norton's work is included in permanent collections at 21C Hotel Louisville, the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University.

She is the recipient of awards and grants from the Puffin Foundation, 2011, See.me 2013 Painting Category Winner, 2014, M.A. Hadley Fellowship, 2016, the Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant, 2019, and the Great Meadows Artist Professional Development Grant, 2019 & 2020. Norton has been a contributing writer for Arts in Bushwick and Abstract Critical.

Her lectures and writings have been published on MOCA tv, the Brooklyn Rail, Duke University Scalar publications, and Blacksun Lit. She currently works as an independent curator for The Common Gallery in Louisville and serves on the committee for arts and programming at Payne Hollow in Trimble County, Kentucky. Rebecca is co-founder and program director for Orbit and Maybe It's Fate, an arts and culture establishment and for-profit member-based artist cooperative based in Louisville.

She lives and works in Kentucky.

Banff 3 Study

Karen Radiloff