These are Arc Paintings done in the likes of Abstract Expressionism, but on a grand scale. They each are done in a series of 1 meter by 1 meter panels and when combined, each Arc Painting measures 10 meters by 2 meters. I  created these in the 1960s and 70s and have 6 of them in my College Point, NY studio.

If you want to see these Arc Paintings please contact me on this website or call me at 347 884-0388.

Below is the Video Transcript.

I am John Norwood. I am trying to be an artist. This is an Arc Painting. I call it Falling Balls. And it reminds me of the moon. I think it looks to me like a cold moonscape. It goes up and down in space with the segments of arcs in metric dimensions: a millimeter up to a kilometer. It’s concerned with arcs of metric circles. The left panel has a one meter diameter circle and then it goes down to 10 centimeters, 1 centimeter and 1 millimeter. Then it goes up to 10 meters, 100 meters, and 1,000 meters, the arcs going through this painting. These paintings were done 40 some years ago in New Jersey where I had an art studio. And the junk on it is stuff left from architectural models, stuff from doing the renovation on this building. It’s all very autobiographical, like a baby barricade, a carousel from a slide camera, and various other cut-off wood from doing the renovation.

If you want to see these Arc Paintings please contact me on this website or call me at 347 884-0388.

I hope you enjoy the video.. Thank You.

There’s a line from T.S. Eliot, “I’ve measured out my life in coffee spoons.”

The first thing I do in the morning at four o’clock is make myself a cup of coffee. That usually lasts me a half hour and then I go make another one. I’ve been saving coffee cups for 40 years. I have thousands of them. I have drunk every damn one except for 10 or 20 that other people have left. I have coffee cups made of foam and cardboard. They all used to be foam 30 – 40 years ago and then they had to change to cardboard. I keep collecting them, glueing them together and painting them.

If you want to see any of these Coffee Cup Sculptures you are very welcome to by contacting me online here or calling me at 347 884-0388.

I hope you enjoy the video. Thank You.

This spring (2012) I am planning an event to celebrate my 75th birthday and the art that I’ve created throughout most of that period. I’d love to hear from you if you’d like an invitation to this event. Keep checking this site for new art and updates on my 2012 art show.

Never quit creating art.

The NY1 interview can be viewed at College Point Artist John Norwood Rebuilds After Fire Destroys Work.

More of my creations can be viewed in my online gallery of Recycle Art.

Please visit my online gallery to see more Recycled Art Sculptures.

Please visit my gallery to view more foam sculptures.

I am not sure where to put these yet, maybe I can convince the owners of Cascarinos to hang them in their restaurant ;). We’ll be be back for more pizza at Cascarinos, so pizza box art will become an expanding part of my collection. Stay tuned.

Please visit my online gallery to view more recycled art pieces.

I recently gathered some packaged food boxes (and a couple of other boxes) that were destined for recycle, framed each in black paint and then stacked them – a Tower of Packaged Food Boxes. I normally work with silver, orange, black and white, but like the colors already found in these boxes.

I recently read an article in Good Magazine titled “Zero-Packaging Grocery Store to Open in Austin, Texas“. The new grocery store is In.gredients and shoppers fill their own containers with food rather than purchasing them pre-packaged. Great sustainability concept but not great for my recycled art.  If this concept takes of, I’ll need to find different materials.

If you enjoy this, please view my other painted cardboard boxes.

Infinity Intercourse, although I do like the sound of Suspended Infinity, is insulation foam molded into an infinity loop and then painted white. I have a few other infinity loop pieces but I particularly like how this looks against a black background. The great thing about insulation foam is that it’s very pliable and light, making it a great material to hang once it’s transformed into art.

You can view additional insulation foam sculptures at my website.