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Artists
Norman Korpi:
My current artwork is derived from photographs captured through my travels across America. The process of changing digital images into original artwork has transformed the "overlooked" into the "spectacular." My recent work, Landscapes Now, is a journey to find the moment of drama and beauty in a scene. Beauty is all around us; it just needs to be recognized. It is through recognition that our world is enhanced and our lives enriched.
Norman Korpi was born in Wakefield, Michigan in 1967 and is internationally known for his ground-breaking appearance on MTV's The Real World as an artist, production designer and director. A Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Norman received his BFA from Cooper Union and studied at Yale's Norfolk Program. Norman has product designed over the years for the Guggenheim Museum, the ICA Museum in Boston, and The Pierpont Morgan Collection in New York. As an art director Norman has created for Nickelodeon, Disney, Saban, UPN, Mattel, Nissan, Pizza Hut, Miller Beer, Jaguar, the Oscars, the Pacific Design Center and Radio City Music Hall's half-time Super Bowl show starring Diana Ross. Norman's film directing career began with GET networks in New York in 1993 and has led to his award-winning film The Wedding Video, released by TLA video in 2003 and Warner Bros Television in 2004.
Norman's artwork has been collected consistently over the years and is on display in numerous public and private collections. Currently, he is represented by several galleries: Ghettogloss in Los Angeles, Evviva Art Gallery and the Home Expo Design.
