Stretch your metaphysical imagination a bit and you might conjure up a molecular geneticist working with an artist’s palette of DNA segments from Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and Edward Hopper to create a hybrid creature of the arts known as Nora Othic.
San Francisco-born but raised in Missouri since age seven, Othic may seem an anomaly to some in today’s art world – a self-proclaimed “Neo-Regionalist” whose works reflect the style but not necessarily the sweet sentiments evoked by illustrators like Norman Rockwell and by some of the Depression-era painters whose works were focused on pastoral landscapes and picket-fenced small-town America.
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