Ken Norris’ work explores individual connection to the physical world using both depictions of ordinary real life spaces and self-portraits from adjacent realities. Using a wide color palette and variety of brush strokes, his work is inspired by those times when baffling emotions and anomalous events commingle. In ordinary everyday scenes, he considers how small details can provide a window to a larger picture. While in self-portraits he explores the idea of multiple realities over one.

He brings varying qualities of warmth, depth, and texture to provide unambiguous historical context to each landscape or portrait and flips this principle for self-portraits, allowing the subjects (himself, elsewhere) to float in space. His work gives space to reflect on one’s place within the existing order and invites viewers to consider an alternative.

His work is inspired by contemporary American animation and Russian impressionist/post- impressionist movements, adding dashes of absurdity and levity to unpretentious interpretations of life. He’s a self taught artist with an academic background in economics and environmental policy. He currently works in the renewable energy and electric power system industries.