Johanna Norry
Bio: Johanna Norry (she/her/hers) is a fiber artist and teaches weaving, textiles, 2D Design and Color Theory at the University of North Georgia. In 2018, she received an MFA in Fabric Design from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, a BFA in Textiles from Georgia State University in 2015, and a BA in Anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been featured in Photo Trouvée Magazine, juried exhibitions and group shows in New York City, New Jersey, New Mexico, Kentucky, Texas, Victoria, BC., and in Georgia at the The Georgia Museum of Art, The Lyndon House, Marcia Wood Gallery, The Bakery, and MINT. In August and September2023, her new woven collage work will be featured in a duo show, Common Threads, with fellow textile artist, Amanda Britton, in the Moon Gallery at Berry College.
Artist Statement: My work employs traditional techniques of weaving, hand knitting, coiling, embroidery and stitching to create work that often combines comforting materials with discomforting or unexpected forms. I take a similar approach when I am collaging and working with family and found photos—mining memories, real and metaphorical archives. My artistic process is to respond, materially, to my research and culminates with art and installations that are themselves a sort of documentation, an accumulation/ manipulation of evidence—incomplete, distorted, a fraction of the truth that remains and is revealed by my material interpretations.
