Onzie Norman

Onzie Norman (b.1980) is a self-taught mix media painter and wood sculptor from Detroit Michigan. Onzie started in the field of carpentry in high school and later graduated from the Detroit Carpenters Apprenticeship School in 2003. This craft would play an important role in his artistic development. After a vision in 2013 Onzie begin to draw, this led to his experimenting with painting on wood. Onzie constructs his own canvas out of wood and uses paper, wood, acrylic, spray paint and resin to create one-of-a-kind artworks.

I have an energetic approach to interpreting various aspects of life. I manipulate and re-imagine ideas with mixed media materials, using paper, collage, paint, and wood to create distinctive bodies of work. Much of my artwork is created on a handcrafted wood canvas which allows me to construct different shapes and sizes. My focus is to use art to address history, heroes, music, architecture, still life and ethnicity especially through abstract portraiture.

MI

United States