Norbert Maszalek: Vessels
@ Ignition project space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Friday, June 7th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Thursday, June 27th
Norbert Marszalek
Vessels
solo exhibition
June 1 – 27, 2024
My immigrant mother introduced me to the culture of tea-drinking while I was still a very young boy. This led to my love and appreciation of teacups and teapots—their designs and ceremonial significance. Innocently enough, I began a series of still life paintings depicting teacups and teapots and needing additional source material began gathering these objects from thrift shops, estate sales, and flea markets. The paintings then gave life to a series of drawings and collages with more and more teacups and teapots accumulating in my studio. Living and being surrounded with these objects, I kept thinking on the word, vessel. The word sounded so ancient yet there was something present-day about it. These vessels carried me on journeys packed with fragmented impressions: childhood memories, Catholicism, our humanness, and the world’s current trying times, among others. My thoughts slowly congealed, giving way to these found object sculptures.
Biography:
Norbert Marszalek lives, works and was born in Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Northeastern Illinois University and has also studied at the American Academy of Art and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His paintings, works on paper, and sculptures have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the George Billis Gallery in Los Angeles; the Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana; and the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago. Marszalek also has work in numerous public collections including the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa.
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