Artwork copyright Norman Lundin. Photo courtesy of the artist.

The Storage Room, 1981

Norman Lundin
American (born 1938)

Location: Pierce College - Fort Steilacoom, Lakewood

About the Artwork

The Storage Room is a still life drawing by artist Norman Lundin. The composition features wrapped packages and large metal bins. We do not know what the packages contain. Are they paintings? He notes, "I interpret objects in the sense that they define a void - which is to say that just as one cannot have a 'short' without a 'long' for comparison, one cannot have a 'void without an 'object.'"

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Pierce College District.

About the Artist

Seattle-artist Norman Lundin creates still life paintings and drawings that observe light, shadow, and negative space. In his own words "Just as one cannot have something ‘long’ without having something ‘short’ for comparison, one cannot have an ‘object’ without a ‘void’. It is the void interests me. With this kind of priority I find that I must use objects that have little or no emotional association."
Lundin is Professor Emeritus of Art at the University of Washington, where he has taught since 1964. He was born in Los Angeles and raised in Chicago. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1963. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to study the work of artist Edvard Munch at the University of Oslo in Norway for 1963-65.