Arts Council welcomes New York Artist, Alex Norelli

New York Artist, Alex Norelli will be displaying part of his year-long postcard project in the Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery located inside the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana. The one night only exhibit is entitled, The Post/Art Show. The gallery is located at 318 Main Street in downtown Evansville, Indiana. Join the Arts Council for a reception for this one night only Exhibit on November 7th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Alex Norelli has resided in New York for twelve years. Poetry and painting is where Norelli started but has since branched out into music and graphic design. “Things grow, things change, poetry turns into music, painting turns into poetry, doodles turn into projects, and every effort goes into the depth of the next. Its pretty simple, and I want to do it forever.”
Artist Bio
Visual artist, poet and musician Alex Norelli works with postcards. Its the dimensions and the relative cheapness to send them that attracts him. Growing up in a rather rural part of Pennsylvania, it was through the mail that he experienced artifacts of the outside world. As a kid he did chores around the house so he could then have his parents write checks for mail order catalogues, like Archie McFee. Norelli was able to use the mail to interact with the broader world before the Internet became readily available. But now that the Internet is the default mechanism for communication, Norelli sees the value of the postcard not to be redundant, but perhaps on the cusp of its greatest meaning. Divorced from being solely a utilitarian means of communicating messages, now it can become a creative vector for any and all expression. Kind of like using a bottle as an instrument or a plastic jug as a drum, Norelli hopes to find new ways to use the 4X6 dimensions of the average postcard for communicating what no other format has yet been able to, the tangibility of the message.
To see more of Norelli’s works, visit alexnorelliart.com. For more information about the The Post/Art Show and other upcoming events, visit artswin.org.