Greg Kucera Gallery is excited to announce our fourth exhibition by Seattle artist, Norman Lundin. The exhibition, titled The Space Between Things, is the artist’s continued exploration of visual detail through imagined still-lifes, studio views, and landscape vistas. Working primarily from memory rather than direct observation, Lundin’s paintings incorporate everyday objects and settings to create seemingly casual, but in actuality quite formal, compositions.

“As a painter many things get my attention but what interests me most, is the space between things. My work incorporates content that has little or no emotional association. The objects I paint are ubiquitous in our daily lives and are, essentially, psychologically neutral. This is intended, as it then allows the light and volume of space (which are fairly fragile as subject matter) to become what is most important. The objects are not there to be described; they are there to describe the space. 

To have expressive content is important to me as well. However, I believe that expression does not come from an artist’s intention, but arrives only as a by-product of the act of painting – as such, a gift of those, often fickle, Angels of Good Fortune who are known to be seen occasionally in the company of artists.”

                                          – Norman Lundin

BIOGRAPHY

Norman Lundin did his undergraduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and did his graduate work at University of Cincinnati (MFA). He was Assistant to the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum before going to the University of Oslo to study the work of Edvard Munch and late 19th c. Scandinavian painting. While in Norway he accepted a position to teach Painting and Drawing at University of Washington. He taught at the U of W for forty years and is now Professor of Art, Emeritus.

He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Tiffany Foundation Grant, Washington State Visual Artists Fellowship, Ford Foundation Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts award. He has been a Visiting Professor/Artist at many universities and art schools.

His work is included in the collections of: the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago, Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum and the Brooklyn Art Museum, among others. He has had over seventy solo exhibitions and has had one-person shows in most of the major cities in the US.