3 Bad Things (installation view)
Watercolor, gouache and projection on paper and Dura-Lar
77 x 165 inches
2014
The White Balloon Series (ongoing)
Multimedia, oil on linen and archival pigment prints
Varying sizes
2015 - ongoing
Not White Enough
Oil and acrylic on canvas
64 x 96 inches
2015
Felicita M. Norris
Lecturer, Painting
Email: fnorris@berkeley.edu
Website: www.felicitanorris.com
Instagram: @f3licita_art
Office hours: Fridays 10-11am, email for appointment
Felicita Norris works primarily in painting and photography. Her works begin as reactions to personal experiences, although the images and themes represented are not strictly autobiographical. Acting as a stage for figures and objects, her paintings, drawings and photos depict unsettling images that respond to social constructions, institutions and politics. In creating relatable narratives that simultaneously hide and reveal, her “self-indulgent” themes shift between the domestic to specific aspects of desire and longing. Norris is also inspired by dreams and pop culture, typically using interiors to re-create claustrophobic and psychologically disturbing motifs, continually referencing obsessive fantasies and dreams culturally associated with the feminine psyche; the self-induced pleasure that comes from the euphoria of desire, where self-control is simultaneously difficult, necessary and painful; examination of race is explored through the position and politics of “not being white enough.”
Felicita received her MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University and a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. Norris has been drawing and painting for more than 20 years and has recently exhibited in the Walter and McBean galleries and at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. Norris was long-listed for the Aesthetica Magazine Art Prize and featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology, Future Now in 2018, and has exhibited her work internationally at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Leeds College of Art, the United Kingdom; Los Angeles; and San Francisco. She currently lives and works in the California Bay Area.
Courses Taught:
Art 103: Reconsidering the Portrait & Figure
Recent and Upcoming Events/Highlights:
deYoung Open, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, Oct 10, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021
https://deyoungopenexhibition.artcall.org/submissions/qr-view/175490
“Family Matters” Online group exhibition at Root Division, San Francisco, CA, Dec 4, 2020 - Jan 4, 2021 https://rootdivision.org/exhibition-rd-gallery/family-matters
Featured cover artist for sPARKLE & BLINK, Issue 109
http://quietlightning.org/109/
Upcoming: Daly City Arts &Culture Commission Artist Dialogue with Felicita Norris (virtual) - Mar 9, 2021, 7PM PST (Zoom link TBA)
Upcoming: Solo Exhibition at the Louie-Meager Gallery, Fremont, CA, Oct 4 - Nov 4, 2021