by

Norman O’Flynn

An exhibition of interior and still life artworks by Norman O’Flynn

Norman O’Flynn has been at the forefront of the recent resurgence of interior and still life paintings and his latest exhibition, titled The sky is the limit, features a selection of editioned artworks based on paintings he painted in this genre.

For centuries interior and still life paintings have told us about the objects we value. Fresh fruit and flowers in the 16 and 17th centuries, musical instruments and technological objects in the 18th century and paintings with ornate frames in Victorian times. What would it be today?

If you ask Norman O’Flynn it would be paintings and sculptures by artists like Lichtenstein and Kaws. Books with titles that refer to capitalist consumption that leaves us confused and terrified while we search for meaning in popular culture and find nostalgia in figurines of super heroes from our childhood. Apartments don’t have ceilings and suggest places where we escape to way beyond this world and its walls. The sky is the limit only because we have so many questions.

This exhibition can be viewed at www.worldart.co.za/normanoflynn. All the works are digitally printed on plexi-glass, signed and numbered by the artist and framed in a charcoal-coloured aluminium frame.

Norman O’Flynn born (b. 1971), lives and works in Cape Town as a painter, sculptor and all-round constructor.

 EDUCATION

1988-1992 BA Fine Arts, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa

 RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Cool and composed, WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

2018 Timekeeper, Art Supermarket Asia, Hong Kong

2018 GNOMON. WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

2016 The good, the bad and the boom! WORLDART, Cape Town, South Africa

2015 BANG BANG BOOM. Diedericks Faber. Johannesburg & Cape Town, South Africa

2010 Deep Down we all want to rob a Bank. Erdmann Contemporary. Cape Town, South Africa.

2007 Never Too Late To Be A Man, Bell Roberts Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa

2005 Currency, AVA, Association for Visual Art, Cape Town, South Africa

COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

 2007 ABSA L’Atelier finalist

 2006 Pro Helvetia Swiss Residency Fellowship

 2005 ABSA L’Atelier finalist

 2004 Brett Kebble Art Awards finalist

More information:    Charl Bezuidenhout  |  charl@worldart.co.za   |   +27 21 423 3075