Norbert Kox

2015 BIOGRAPHY:

NORBERT H. KOX was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, August 6, 1945, just nine hours after the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.  He sees this ushering in of his birth by an atomic explosion as an important omen in the foreshadowing of his apocalyptic art ministry.

Norbert Kox is a practicing professional artist and past Sculpture and Painting Instructor at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and also has taught his techniques of luminous painting at UWGB Summer Art Studios, for 15 years. He has developed his own techniques of translucent acrylic glazing to produce the same intensely glowing effects and illusionary dimensional space that he achieves with oils. His style and technique have become an unmistakable trademark  distinguishing his works from any others.

He refers to his visual work as Apocalyptic Visual Parables, in the genre of Apocalyptic Surrealism. The pieces are bathed with symbols and metaphors, and are colorfully painted with realistic shading and highlighting. Some are more abstract while others are more figurative. Most are very surreal and many of these works contain his own poetry and writings, along with Bible verses and  Bible Codes (the "Torah Code") written within the work for reference. Ko...

NORBERT H. KOX, 2015 ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a self-taught visionary artist working in the category of Apocalyptic Surrealism. The works reveal things not only to my viewers but also to me. My art has taken me on a forty-year journey of self awareness and spiritual growth.
I've been painting since 1963, when I taught myself to use oils. Today much of my work is done in acrylics, sometimes over-glazed with oils. I rediscovered the glazing techniques of the old masters while working on my first crucifixion painting in 1976. Today my artwork consists of painting, sculpture, photography, and video, but my paintings have received the most recognition and interest.
My art is influenced by the study of Biblical Scripture, metaphysics, quantum physics, science and history, as well as personal experience and revelation. These areas of reference merge in the psyche and materialize as visionary artworks. My first major painting, Blood Offering: Yesu Christ the Sacrificial Lamb, was the direct result of a vision in 1976.

Some of my paintings come to me directly in visions, but others are progressive and dynamic, in a sense living visions, developing within themselves; that is, they start with an initial vision and proceed to grow with ...

Norbert H. Kox, Global Exhibition Record (2015-2012 partial. See 2013-1996 at http://nkox.homestead.com/resume.html, earlier entries upon request)

2015, The Call, 8th Annual, Norbert H. Kox and James Pinder Art Exhibition (two-person show) Ministry Of Education, Bimini, Bahamas
2015, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: 30 Years at Cavin-Morris (group exhibition) Cavin-Morris Gallery, 210 11th Ave, rm 201, New York, NY
2014-2015, Enigmas Rapt in Mysteries: American Art Without Epoch (group exhibition) Cavin-Morris Gallery, 210 11th Ave, rm 201, New York, NY
2014, Apocalyptic Surrealism (exhibition and gallery talk) Tiapapata Art Centre Inc, Tiapapata, Western Samoa (Upolu Island)
2014, The Visionary Experience: Saint Francis to Finster (group invitational) American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2014, KIAF/14: The 13th Korea International Art Fair, Norbert H. Kox, Daniel Marten Diaz, Johan Muyle, Huston Ripley, Won Sou-Yeol (Galerie TOXIC) COEX Trade Center, Seoul, Korea
2014, Art Education Teacher Trainees Preview Exhibition for 2014 SIDS; Exhibit Introduces U.S. Artist in Residence Norbert H. Kox (with paintings created in Samoa) Faculty of Education, National University of Samoa, Apia, Western Samoa (Upolu Island...