American (Arkansas/Tennessee), Contemporary

 Norwood Creech is the third in a family of female painters, all well schooled in the classical traditions in both painting and drawing.  Yet Norwood's style has emerged distinctively her own, combining the best of classical aspects with best of the contemporary spirit, energy and brevity.  She has already attained a strong auction record and had noteworthy honors and exhibitions.  These honors include a Master Program with Wayne Thiebaud, at Santa Fe Institute; an exhibition for the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Learning; and a residency at Dorland Mountain Artist Colony, Temecula, California.  She has had numerous exhibitions, including the University of Memphis Museum, Southern Tenants Farmer's Museum (one woman), and The Butler Center for Arkansas Arts.  She is represented in some leading collections throughout the United States. 

In January, Norwood has the privilege or curating for The Arkansas Center for the Arts, Little Rock, an exhibition from the Center's collection entitled, "Horizons Interrupted".  She has selected  works in which the horizon line is a critical element of the composition, as she  finds that this element, whether high or low,  provides an important grounding spatial reference for works of all genre.

One has only to live in or drive through the flat flood plains of Eastern Arkansas to fully appreciate the importance of her vision. The current Arkansas landscape, with its seemingly endless horizon, was created by the floods following the New Madrid Earthquakes in 1811-12, and again disastrously flooded in the Spring of 2011 - shortly before this painting was executed.  That horizon is the foundation of the land's culture and even its industry - interrupted only by periodic tree-lines (as above), buildings and water and agricultural towers.

 The Arkansas Center for the Arts exhibition "Horizons Interrupted" runs January 13 - March 11, 2012

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