Local Artist Joe Norman & Flying Heart Motorcycles

Check out the Bikes and our photos of today's Harley Ride, below.
For more information on the bikes, please
contact Joe Norman through his website, Blue Boat.

You can see more of Joe Norman's custom work,
including tables and pedestals, here at Gallery MAR.

1974 Honda CT90 Trail 90 ‘Greyboy’ $3100

engine:  105cc air-cooled single cylinder

weight:  200 lbs, power:  8 hp

fuel:    80 mi/gal, capacity 1.5 gal

speed:   50 mph

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1971 Honda CT90 Trail 90 ‘Green Man’ $3100

engine:  89cc air-cooled single cylinder

weight:  200 lbs, power:   7 hp

fuel:    90 mi/gal, capacity 1.6 gal

speed:   45 mph

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1970 Honda CL175 ‘The Vicar’ $5400

engine:  174cc air-cooled dual cylinder

weight:  290 lbs, power: 19 hp

fuel:    60 mi/gal, capacity 2.3 gal

speed:   80 mph

1971 Honda CT90 Trail 90: ‘Green Man’

Join Joe Norman at Gallery MAR this Saturday from noon-on.  Joe Norman will be premiering 3 new vintage bikes that he has been building with Flying Heart Motorworks.

This premier coincides with the Park City Harley-Davidson Charity Ride and Poker Run. See more information about the Ride below– and ride safely!

(1) Motorcycle admission into a fully escorted ride by the Park City Police Motorsquad from Harley-Davidson of SLC to Park City Harley-Davidson

(1) Free lunch provided by The Wasatch Brew Pub of Park City from 12:00pm-2:30pm

The ride will depart Harley-Davidson of Salt Lake City on Saturday August 27th at 10:30 AM. The Park City Police Motorsquad will lead the riders up 1-80 East through Parleys Canyon, to Highway 40, exiting onto Kearns Blvd, ending in the specially designated Wasatch Brew Pub parking lot at the top of historic Main Street in downtown Park City. Additional FREE motorcycle parking will also be available on Main Street in front of The No Name Saloon on 447 Main Street in Park City. The No Name Saloon is a proud sponsor of the Brandon Olson Charity Ride and Poker Run.

Gallery MAR‘s Joe Norman and Warren Neary are both featured in this month’s press coverage. We’re excited to see these two fine artists’ work, celebrated. Pick up a copy of City Weekly or Southwest Art Magazine today and read more below to discover their talents.

Artys 2010– Celebrating Utah’s Arts: The best in local theater, dance, art & more.

By City Weekly Staff

“Best Recycled Works”

Joe Norman, Blue Boat Home Design

We’re not kidding when we say this furniture is pure junk. Artist Joe Norman painstakingly crafts sculptures and furnishings out of leftover materials more suited for the dump, creating eco-friendly products with both an aesthetic and practical use. Using items like wood pallets, crankshafts, bike gears, concrete bits, scrapmetal and even old bomb casings as material, Norman is able to fashion anything into a dining-room table or a matching desk-and-chair set—finding beauty and use in that which has been discarded, giving his customers enjoyment and the environment a break. BlueBoatHomeDesign.com

Southwest Art Magazine, October 2010

Portfolio | Peaks & Valleys: Rocky Mountain Landscapes

“I’ve enjoyed drawing and painting since I was a child. In high school, 
I remember stepping off the bus and seeing this flaming sunset, and 
I thought to myself, someday I want to capture that in paint. In creating this painting, I traveled to one of my favorite locations—the Wyoming Hereford Ranch. It reminds me of my childhood home, with cows, horses, meandering streams, rolling hills, and gnarly cotton-wood trees. I quickly developed a color sketch in oil and then used it along with photos to complete the painting. I find working this way exhilarating. My goal is to create artwork that captures the essence 
of what I see and transports us to another world.”

Dossier
Representation
Abend Gallery, Denver, CO; Gallery Mar, Park City, UT; www.warrenneary.com.

Upcoming Shows
Group exhibit, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton, OH, October 22-
January 2011.
Group show, Abend Gallery, October 29-November 24.

We’ve just finished hosting Recycle Utah at Gallery MAR for the “Charity Gallery Stroll,” here in Park City.  Recycle Utah has some new members, we gave away a gorgeous art gift basket, and educated some newbies about recycling practices and “going green.” Did you know that the most “eco-friendly” time to run the dishwasher is at night? A little white noise for your slumber.

Here at Gallery MAR we recycle, well, almost everything! We reuse cardboard boxes, bubble wrap, and peanuts, and re-use and recycle our paper products as well as cardboard, plastic, and aluminum. We’re very fortunate to enjoy  the recycling capabilities that we have here in Park City.

A few of our artists also recycle products and found-objects and use them in their artworks. Sustainable metal and wood artist Joe Norman makes tables and pedestals out of found objects, reclaimed palette wood, and car and bike parts. And Michael Bingham has used reclaimed highway signs and car parts in his wall pieces, towers and beacons. Bingham’s work is featured above; the wing of this sculpture is from an old Coca Cola billboard.

When shipping artwork (or moving house, as I am this week), you can re-use a well-made cardboard box at least 4 times before the edges start to fray. At that point, the cardboard gets cut into rectangles and becomes a shield between paintings in our back storage area. The life of the tree keeps on giving! Bubble wrap, Styrofoam peanuts, and other “fillers” can be re-used indefinitely and there are some fantastic new biodegradable options in the packing department.

I know my collectors appreciate that their fine art purchases are brought to them in the most “green” way possible. Now, if we could just get Federal Express to offset their carbon imprint…

Creative flair and environmental ingenuity come together in the work of Joe Norman, Utah-based sculpture and furniture maker. His work is always unique and always refreshing. He recently shared with us his most recent completion.

The latest piece began its life as a collection of pallets and bomb fins. Norman has a talented eye– he sees artwork in the mundane and rejected “garbage” otherwise relegated to the dumpster. For this table, the only items that weren’t re-purposed were the paint and the bolts that hold the legs to the seat. Everything else was fully recycled!

Norman writes to the gallery, “I’m really enjoying combining found objects and modern aesthetics with a green sensibility — eventually I’d like to have all parts of the furniture recycled, including paints.” We look forward to seeing how Norman’s work will progress and what new ideas he will explore as he creates his beautiful eco-friendly pieces.

In addition, Norman is interetsed in commissison work. Have an idea or a piece of “scrap” that you would like to utilize in a new way? We’ll put you in touch and Norman can create the perfect piece for you and your eco-friendly lifestyle.

Made of wood and steel, Joe Norman’s tables present a fresh and modern design that accommodates a diverse palette of visual tastes. Currently we have a pedestal and console table in the gallery, and Norman’s work is is available by commission as well.

Joe Norman is a local Utah artist and teacher. He graduated with a degree in engineering from Stanford University prior to careers in product design consulting, education, and fine art. His furniture and sculpture explores environments that support and promote communities. Many of his designs are direct results of working with schools, families, and businesses to develop places that encourage people to work and be together in positive and supportive ways.

Norman believes that gathering places feed the soul of our communities; that it is around our kitchens or with our feet propped up on coffee tables that we have some of our most important conversations. He thinks the most important part of his work isn’t the tables he makes, but rather it is about the people that are sitting around them. In other words, we do not need more stuff in our lives that does not bring us together in community.

His furniture is made with recycled and environmentally conscious processes and materials whenever possible; he considers the earth itself as an important member of our global community. In fact, many of his ideas in were born from wrecking yards, recycling centers, and retired bicycles. His machine shop is powered by renewable wind energy.