| Opening reception: Friday, February 29, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Artist talk: Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Norman Turner was born in 1939 in Storm Lake Iowa and grew up in Iowa City, where his father, a composer, was a professor of music at the University of Iowa. While in high school he wrote music that was performed by the chorus and band. At eighteen he studied music composition at the University of Colorado. At nineteen he learned to cast sculpture in bronze and was an undergraduate in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, working with Vance Bourjaily, Donald Justice and Philip Roth. In 1963 he moved to New York City and, in 1964, became a founding student of the New York Studio School, where his teachers were Charles Cajori, Mercedes Matter, George Spaventa and Esteban Vicente. He has had seventeen solo shows, has participated in over thirty group shows, and has taught at Queens College and the New York Studio School. His work has been reviewed in Art News, Art in America, and The New York Times. Writing in the New York Times, John Caldwell described his paintings as “electrified Van Gogh.” He now lives in New Paltz, New York with his wife and daughter and divides his time between the Shawangunk Mountains and Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.
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