Maria Nordman

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Maria Nordman (born 1943, Görlitz) is a German-American sculptor and conceptual artist.

Life and work

Nordman immigrated to the USA with her family when she was young.[1]

She became part of Southern California's Light and Space movement.[2] Her art developed in the late 1960s from ephemeral recordings of sights and sounds around Los Angeles, with an "idealistic" desire to create democratic, accessible works.[3] Based in Santa Monica, she became known in California for her light-filled art installations. In 1990 she first exhibited in New York, with Exhibition of Permanent Transience where she created a reflective experience using glass panels and still-life objects in the Dia Center for the Arts.[1]

In 2011, Nordman's 1967 work Filmroom: Smoke was displayed as part of a retrospective of Los Angeles art, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The work comprised of two films, one from a static camera and the other handheld, of a couple smoking sitting in an easy chair on a beach.[4][5]

Nordman has exhibited at Documenta in Germany in 1977, 1982 and 1987.[2] She has exhibited in Italy[5] and held her first Berlin solo show in 2013.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brenson, Michael (November 30, 1990). "Reviews/Art; Maria Nordman's Exhibition of Permanent Transience". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-02-06. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Swenson, Kirsten (October 2, 2012). "Land Art for the Media Age". Art in America. Retrieved 2014-02-06. 
  3. ↑ Rugoff, Ralph (January-February 2000). "Touched By Your Presence". Frieze (50). Retrieved 2014-02-06. 
  4. ↑ Mizota, Sharon (September 7, 2011). "PST, A to Z: Maria Nordman, 'Film Room: Smoke' at LACMA". Culture Monster (Los Angeles Times). Retrieved 2014-02-06. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Govan, Michael (September 22, 2011). "Michael Govan: To Understand L.A. Art, I Went to Italy". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2014-02-06. 
  6. ↑ Maria Nordman - De Ondas 1983 - 2013 (press release), Konrad Fischer Gallerie Berlin. Retrieved 2014-02-06.

Further reading

  • Falconer, Morgan. "Nordman, Maria." In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed February 22, 2012; subscription required).

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