• Art gallery with framed paintings on white walls, natural light through windows, light wood flooring.

Nora Sturges

Borders and Edges

May 24 – June 29, 2025

There’s something about Nora Sturges’ paintings.

Created over a decade ago (2008-2015), the works in Borders and Edges feel like they’re happening right now. They exude hope and fear, pulsing through the absurd and the unknown with a humor and playfulness that hints at the possibility that things might (eventually) be okay.

Exhibition Views    Artist Statement    Selected Works    Press

  • A modern white room with high ceilings, four framed pictures hanging on the main wall, two windows with green trees outside, and a gray ottoman in the corner.
  • Gallery wall with framed artwork in an art gallery or museum, white walls, wooden floor, and minimal decor.
  • Three paintings of landscapes hung on a white gallery wall.
  • An art gallery white wall with a collection of framed paintings arranged in a row at eye level, with light wooden flooring below.
  • Three framed digital art pieces hanging on a white gallery wall, showing abstract landscapes and structures.
  • An art gallery with white walls featuring framed pictures hung in a row. A black door is on the left and wooden floors are visible.
  • Photograph of an art gallery with plain white walls and a wooden floor, featuring small framed artworks evenly spaced along the walls, under bright ceiling lights.
  • An art gallery with various paintings hanging on white walls and a wooden floor, with a window showing green trees outside.
  • Minimalist art gallery display with four small rectangular artworks on a stark white wall.
  • Interior view of a modern art gallery with white walls, featuring several framed artworks. There is a large window on the left side showing green trees outside.
  • Art gallery with small framed paintings on white walls, part of the artworks are visible.
  • White gallery wall with several framed artworks, a window showing greenery outside, and hardwood floors.
  • An art gallery with white walls and framed artwork, wooden floor, and bright overhead lighting.
  • White art gallery walls with small framed artworks and wooden floors illuminated by ceiling lights.
  • A modern art gallery with white walls displaying framed artworks. The gallery has wooden flooring, and there are ceiling lights illuminating the space.
  • An art gallery with white walls displaying framed pictures. The left section showcases a few small artworks with greenery outside visible through a small window. The right section features a row of small framed pieces on a plain white wall.
  • Interior view of an art gallery with white walls, framed artworks, wooden floors, and a window showing green foliage outside.
  • A gallery room with framed artwork hanging on white walls, a wooden floor, and a black door.
  • An art gallery with a white wall displaying a row of small framed photographs, a large window showing green trees, and a wooden floor.

Artist Statement

Temporary Cities

These paintings depict the edges of human habitation— outposts in the wilderness of the Arctic and overlooked margins of densely populated areas nearer home. The familiar landscapes examine both the practical and unplanned ways we transform our visual environment, while the arctic scenes offer evidence of our attempts to measure, tame, live in, understand, and improve our world, set against the unknowable vastness of nature itself.

Giotto’s Hole

The paintings in the series are mostly inspired by the art that has meant the most to me over the past 30 years—late medieval Italian painting. In some, I reimagine details of medieval frescos as objects in our present-day world; in others, I reflect on the juxtapositions that occur and connections that are made when viewing such art in situ in Italy. The series is named for a particularly wonderful hole Giotto painted in his fresco depicting St. Francis casting demons out of Arezzo.

Selected Works

Houses 7.75 x 12.5 inches Oil on MDF 2012

Houses
7.75 x 12.5 inches
Oil on MDF
2012

Artificial Nests 7.75 x 12.5 inches Oil on MDF 2013

Artificial Nests
7.75 x 12.5 inches
Oil on MDF
2013

Giotto's Hole 12 x 16 inches Egg tempera on MDF 2015

Giotto's Hole
12 x 16 inches
Egg tempera on MDF
2015

Moon Bounce 7.25 x 10 inches Oil on MDF 2012

Moon Bounce
7.25 x 10 inches
Oil on MDF
2012

Parking Garage 8 x 10 inches Oil on MDF 2012

Parking Garage
8 x 10 inches
Oil on MDF
2012

Signs 14 x 17.5 inches Egg tempera on MDF 2015

Signs
14 x 17.5 inches
Egg tempera on MDF
2015

Press

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Nora Sturges | Two Coats of Paint
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Nora Sturges

Borders and Edges

May 24 – June 29, 2025

Installation photography © Luc Demers