ABOUT------------------------------------
BIO
Nora Chellew is a multidisciplinary artist born and based in Brooklyn. She received her B.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a Concentration in Sustainability & Social Practice from The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. Chellew's work is primarily sculptural, with interventions of text and passive performance. She has shown her work at Spencer Brownstone, NYC; FiveMyles, Brooklyn; Spillway Collective, Philadelphia; and Phoenix Athens, Greece. In 2021, Chellew was the recipient of a N.Y.F.A. City Artist Corps Grant. Outside of her practice, Nora produces live performance and moonlights as a fabricator for other artists.
STATEMENT
“My work combines sculpture, installation, and original text. My aim is to create a space of displaced vestiges, where humor and decay are welcome. I conserve my pieces in accordance with their material ingredients and researched references. Drawing on the aesthetics of archiving, I treat titles and medium lists as integral parts of my work. I am inspired by: cataloging practices, worlding theory, set design, SFX craft, camp horror, chimeric folklore, queer history, Catholic mysticism, object power, carbon dating, ecological processes, climate catastrophe, and therapeutic tactics.”
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Pocono Palace 01
Digital scan of medium format film
11” x 14’” [variable]
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2024
Collection/ Portal Series
Photo
Pocono Palace 02
Inkjet print of medium format film, metal frame with reflective acryclic
11 1/4” x 14 1/4”
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Collection/ Portal Series
Exhibition/ Tend
Photo, Print
Pocono Palace 03
Digital scan of medium format film
11” x 14’” [variable]
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2024
Collection/ Portal Series
Photo
Pocono Palace 04
Digital scan of medium format film
11” x 14’” [variable]
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2024
Collection/ Portal Series
Photo
sea monster petrifaction in three parts
Paper pulp
9 1/2” x 3 3/4”
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2023
Exhibition/ MoMA Staff Art Show, 2024
Sculpture
Pomander Zine
Printed or digital zine
4 1/4” x 5 1/2” printed or PDF
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Digitial, Print, Text
even-toed ungulates: cervidae
Collaboration with Jude Tallichet
Beeswax, reinforced gypsum, horsehair
~40” x 20” x 7”
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Exhibition/ even-toed ungulates
Sculpture, Casting, Collaboration
even-toed ungulates: ungulate alces (phase 1)
Collaboration with Jude Tallichet
Beeswax, reinforced gypsum, sheep hair
~40” x 10” x 5”
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Collection/ ungulate alces
Exhibition/ even-toed ungulates
Sculpture, Casting, Collaboration
even-toed ungulates: ungulate alces (phase 2)
Collaboration with Jude Tallichet
Beeswax, reinforced gypsum, sheep hair
~40” x 10” x 5”
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Collection/ ungulate alces
Exhibition/ even-toed ungulates
Sculpture, Casting, Collaboration
even-toed ungulates: flukes umbilicus
Collaboration with Jude Tallichet
Beeswax, reinforced gypsum
~10” x 14” x 1”
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Exhibition/ even-toed ungulates
Sculpture, Collaboration
impressions
Collaboration with Jude Tallichet
Two framed 4” x 6” photographs, 1 hour 9 minute 56 second sound
Variable size
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Exhibition/ even-toed ungulates
Sound, Photo, Collaboration
FERRETING TEMPERED TREASURES
Hydrocal and Ultracal cement, metal, powdered pigment
9.5" x 20" x 6'
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2021
Exhibition/ Honoring the Dog-Legging Horizon
Sculpture, Casting, Text
Valentino
iPhone photo
5” x 7” printed or JPG
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2020
Exhibition/ Social Photography VIII
Photo
trout spotting beside the moat in the garden behind the chapel wing
Charcoal on wall
Variable size
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Exhibition/ Water Index
Installation, Text
you also ought to wash one another's feet (also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish)
Unscented crystal soap, Choward’s violet mints, holy water, ribbon, hyssop, garden stones
3 tableaus of ~17” x 9” x 12” each
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2019
Exhibition/ Water Index
Sculpture
Casting
charcoal on wall, CD, boombox, flashlights
Variable size
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2019
Exhibition/ Taking Pictures Around a Campfire
Poem, Installation, Text, Sound, Performance
copia
Collaboration with Suldano Abdiruhman
wicker, plaster, glue, sand, pigment, model magic
Variable size
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Exhibition/ Cornucopia/Urn
Sculpture, Collaborative
calcified vase
Paper pulp, wire, plastic flowers
2.5” x 7” x 13”
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2019
Exhibition/ Cornucopia/Urn
Sculpture
a t l a n t i s (pool #2)
Forton plastic, burlap, pigment, Gatorade, marble
~1’ x 4’ x 4’
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Collection/ pools
Exhibition/ Cornucopia/Urn; Water Index
Sculpture, Casting
i want to be evil (pool #1)
Cement, metal, liquid pigment, and Gatorade with performance
6’ x 4’ x 1’
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Collection/ pools
Exhibition/ MICA Thesis Show (2017)
Sculpture, Casting, Text, Performance
Sand Tablet
CNC cut wood, sand
Variable size
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Sculpture, Wood, Digital Fabrication
PONYBOI
Medium
5’ x 1 1/2’ x 2’
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Sculpture, Wood
Spill
3D-printed droplets, polyurethane foam
5” x 7” x 2”
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Sculpture, Assemblage, Digital Fabrication
Taupe Dalmatian
Wood, Fabric
5 1/2’ x 6’ x 6’
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Sculpture, Wood
Reliquary
wood, Gatorade, plastic cup, fabric, nails, sand, baby tooth
3’ x 3’ x 3’
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Sculpture, Assemblage, Wood
8.5x11
Print of two overlayed images, bronze casting of artist's nose, shard of mirror
Variable size
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Sculpture, Casting
little city with what i know now
Found objects
Variable size
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Sculpture, Digital Fabrication
Sugar
Caramel
7.5” x 5” x 1/2”
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Sculpture, Casting
© Nora Chellew, 2024