Carolyn McIntyre Norton
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email | carolyn@carolynnortonart.com
About
Carolyn McIntyre Norton spent her childhood observing the natural areas around the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and the mountains of North Carolina with a camera her mom and dad bought her from Sears and a box of watercolors. Her work is still highly influenced by the wonder of the natural world and the need to protect these areas.
She explores themes of grasslands and waterscapes through printmaking, photography, and handmade artist’s books. Her imagery is the result of responding to sound or observing motion, and often eliminates visual cues of horizon and scale to invite the viewer to enjoy a commonplace experience differently. Beginning a work with a technique that is somewhat unpredictable, and continuing the work more deliberately, is a favorite approach for her to make art.
Norton’s work has been shown in group and solo shows nationally and internationally within galleries such as the Blank Wall Gallery in Greece, Davis Orton Gallery in New York, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, Manifest Gallery in Ohio, and the PhotoPlace Gallery in Vermont. She won Best of Show in 2022 at the 48th Annual Meridian Museum of Art Bi-State Exhibition, was a 2021 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters photography nominee, was included in the 2020 Mississippi Museum of Art Invitational, and will exhibit a solo show at the Meridian Museum of Art in the fall of 2023.
She holds an MFA in studio art from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas and a BFA in Communication Arts and Design from Virginia Commonwealth University.
She has taught visual arts at the university level for 15 years in Texas, Maryland, and Mississippi, establishing the University of Southern Mississippi’s non-toxic printmaking studio and intaglio printmaking class.
