Patsy Norvell
Patsy Ann Norvell (1942–2013) was an American visual artist who worked in
sculpture,
installation art and
public art. She was a pioneering feminist artist active in the
Women's movement since 1969. In 1972 she was a founder of
A.I.R. Gallery which was the first cooperative gallery in the U.S. that showed solely women's work. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad. She received numerous grants, awards and residencies for her achievements, including the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Arts. She created permanent public art works for the [http://web.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=Q&artist=1&station=11 New York City subway system], designed and created lobby and plaza installations in Los Angeles, CA, New Brunswick, NJ, Bridgeport, CT, and Bethesda, MD. Her work has received historical and critical acclaim, and has been written about in books, journals and newspapers including, ''Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art'', in
Sculpture (magazine), the
Los Angeles Times,
The New York Times and numerous other publications.
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