C. Michael Norton

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File:Infinity's Sprawl.jpgC. Michael Norton (born 1951) is an American artist based in New York City. Since the early 2000s, Norton has been best known for his large-scale abstractions on raw linen.{{cite web|url=http://www.cmichaelnorton.com/pdfs/MichaelNortonNYU.pdf |title=The Temptation of Space |last=Vine |first=Richard |website=www.cmichaelnorton.com }} He is represented by UNIX Gallery in New York.{{cite web| url=http://www.unixgallery.com/artists/c-michael-norton | title=C. Michael Norton – Artists | publisher=Unix Gallery | website=www.unixgallery.com }}

After working first as a sculptor, Norton turned to painting as his predominant medium by the late 1980s. Educated as a sculptor, his paintings were made by a variety of tools beyond the traditional paintbrush, such as mud knives, rollers and squeegees. Some paintings evolved from markings collected by pieces of linen taped to the floor, then intuitively built upon.{{cite web|url=http://www.cmichaelnorton.com/pdfs/punzmann_norton.pdf |title=Over the Top |website=www.cmichaelnorton.com }}

Norton's work has been exhibited at institutions including the Sunshine International Museum and the Fifth Beijing International Biennale at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Albissola/ America/Arte” [http://www.museodiffusoalbisola.it/index.php/it/il-museo Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Albissola, Italy], the [http://www.torranceartmuseum.com Torrance Museum of Art], Torrance, California,{{cite web|url=http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/calendar/2015/12/29/sibling-rivalries|title=Sibling Rivalries|website=Torrance Art Museum}} the San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California. It has been reviewed by prominent art publications including Art in America, which called Norton's paintings "architecturally structured, with an allover interplay between hard-edged forms and flat yet infinite space indicated by areas of raw canvas,",{{cite web|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/exhibitions/c-michael-norton/ | title=Exhibitions – C. Michael Norton | publisher=Art in America | website=www.artinamericamagazine.com| date=28 May 2015 }} ARTnews, and Artcritical,[http://www.artcritical.com/ Artcritical] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320005646/http://www.artcritical.com/ |date=2014-03-20 }}. and he has received critical acclaim from Eleanor Heartney, Raphael Rubinstein, Stephen Westfall, Richard Vine, and David Cohen, among others.{{cite web|url=http://www.cmichaelnorton.com/articles.htm|title=C. Michael Norton: Articles and Videos|website=www.cmichaelnorton.com}} In Westfall's review of a 2013 exhibition at Thomas Punzmann Fine Arts in Frankfurt, he describes Norton's art historical lineage with artist such as Gerhard Richter, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella and Francis Bacon.{{cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/63635/Thomas-Punzmann-Fine-Arts-opens-exhibition-of-works-by-C--Michael-Norton#.Wckdh8czPHg|title=Thomas Punzmann Fine Arts opens exhibition of works by C. Michael Norton|first=Ignacio|last=Villarreal|website=artdaily.com}}