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Patsy Norvell (1942-2013) was a New York-based sculptor and public art installation artist. She was active in the women’s movement beginning in 1969, when she participated in an artist conscious raising group and helped to start others. In 1972, Norvell was invited to exhibit in 13 Women, an important early women’s exhibit in New York which included Louise Bourgeois. In the same year she was a founding artist of A.I.R. Gallery, the first all-women’s gallery in the United States.
Norvell’s art has been exhibited widely in galleries and museums and she has been the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and artist residencies. Norvell lectured and taught, introducing Women in the Arts courses at Montclair State College and Hunter College in the 1970s as well as teaching mathematics at Hunter for many years.
Permanent public art projects include installations at the Beverley and the Courtelyou BMT subway stations in Brooklyn, Newsstands in Manhattan, and plaza and lobby installations in Los Angeles, CA; New Brunswick, NJ; Bridgeport, CT; and Bethesda, MD, among others. In 2001, the University of California Press published Recording Conceptual Art, the book form of taped interviews Norvell recorded in 1969. She received her BA in art and mathematics from Bennington College and her MA in sculpture from Hunter College.
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Patsy Norvell’s Ruffle Series were first exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery. At the time these works were reviewed by Carter Radcliff in ArtForum as well as in other publications but few have been shown since the 1970’s. Originally the works were exhibited alongside her innovative “hair quilts” which made use of human hair donated by the other women artists in Norvell’s consciousness raising group, including fellow A.I.R. artist, Harmony Hammond. The two works which will be exhibited at Art on Paper are Small White Ruffle (1972) shown at A.I.R. and Untitled (c. 1971) which was a collaboration with Hammond and has likely never been exhibited.
