Connie Noyes

Artist Statement

My current work PINKSpace functions as a metaphor for my” pinkish” physical body and the space I occupy. It is the color attributed to my “female” gender and can evoke heightened sexuality, innocence or saccharine sweetness. I also use it as a metaphor for the human race. Pink is the color of the internal body - muscle and organs unconcerned with external racial characteristics. Pink is a color of human connection.

Though often unconscious, these associations, as well as many others to this single color, are part of my culture and represent coalitions of personal, yet complex, physical, perceptual and psychological experiences. The gathering of materials is a primary means for investigating these connections in my work. The materials I use at one point might have been utilitarian, were never considered beautiful and are now considered trash. The trash I collect is the skeleton of the work and the catalyst for inquiry into the connection of the personal metaphor to larger concepts of social consciousness. At the moment, the act of turning detritus into “works of art”, or elevating the prestige of garbage calls into question the status quo of beauty, worthiness and usability.

 

Critial Essay by Michael Weinstein, 2010

Working in multiple formats and media, Connie Noyes is an original with a unique vision grounded in her distinctive imagination. Whether she is painting, photographing, or constructing, Noyes' creations are inspired by the irregular shapes and involved lines that dance through her mind's eye and that she integrates into alluring patterns through disciplined composition.

Noyes is at her best when she goes full tilt, layering her surfaces and compounding forms into dense abstractions that draw the viewer into the complex interconnections that she stages. Although Noyes' productions are suggestive of emotion and meaning, they work primarily on a perceptual, rather than a psychological or conceptual level, by beckoning the viewer into the systems of incomplete order that emerge from the moment of "chaos" in her creative process.

Among the rising generation of artists, Noyes is among the few who are not derivative and who take a welcome fresh and individual approach.

 

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EDUCATION

1994 Master of Arts, Psychology, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA

1980 Master in Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1976 Bachelor of Arts, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA

GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

2008 15th International Visual Arts Symposium, Belgrade, Serbia & Padgorica, Montenegro

2007 5th International Visual Arts Symposium , Monastir, Tunisia

Al Smith Fellowship Award, KAC, Frankfort, KY

Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Development Grant, Frankfort, KY

2006 6th International Art Symposium Rusalka-Elite, Veliko-Turnovo, Bulgaria

2006 Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Development Grant, Frankfort, KY

2005    Thupelo International Workshop, Cape Town, South Africa

2005    Emaar International Art Symposium, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2004    Kentucky Arts Council, Professional Assistance Award, Frankfort, KY

 

FEATURED EXHIBITIONS

2010 Three Peas Lounge, Parallel Lines Never Intersect, Chicago IL

E/C Gallery, Poignant Trash, solo, Chicago, IL

Down to Earth, solo show Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL

PINTURA FRESCA, Nothburga Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria

2009 Hohenwarter, Noyes, Puri: New Works, Galerie Frei-raum, Jenbach, Austria

Parallel Lines Never Intersect, Europia Gallerie, Paris, France

2007 Re--fuse/Ref-use, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN

Elements, RBH Gallery, Washington, DC

2006 “Holding Patterns”,  Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA

2005    Stephen Kelly Gallery, Chicago IL

2004  “Wax Drawings”, Paul Sunderholm Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Introductions”, O Gallery, Paducah, Ky

2003   “Edges: Between Chaos and Stillness”, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 Hang Gallery, Featured Artist, Palo Alto, CA

“Coming Around Again”, Weigand Gallery, Featured Artist, Belmont, CA

1992 “New Works”, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1991     “Constructions”, Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA.

1983 “Estarotica”, (photographs and dance), The Northside, Chicago, IL

1982     Cameravision, Los Angeles, CA

Go Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 CENTERLINE 2010, Zhou B. Art Center, Chicago, ILL

100 European Starlings, DuPaul Museum of Art, Chicago, IL

NeoCon 2010, Merchandise Mart, Chicago IL

S.C.R.E.A.M iNc, Hotel des Arts, San Francisco, CA

Art from the Heartland, Indianapolis art Center, Indianapolis, IN, juror Paul Klein

2009 PULSE, Pintura Fresca, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

The 10,000 Project, Art House Co-op, Atlanta, GA

Pintura Fresca Holtzman Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD

The Landfill Art Project, Landfill Art Inc. , Wilkes-Barre, PA

World of Imagination Volume 2, APW Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2008 One of a Kind Show, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL

The ALBA ART SHOW, Anna Bondonio Camadona Gallery, Alba, Italy

The ARTIST PROJECT, Artropolis 2008,  Chicago, IL

PULSE, Pintura Fresca, CA Institute of Integrel Studies, San Francisco, CA

35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA

2007 “PINK”, benefit for Susan Koman Foundation, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA

Effects of War: Altered Lives, Altered Books, CA Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco

Out if Our Minds! Exploration of Spiritual Geography, Artyfakt Gallery, Singapore

Is Abstract Painting Dead? Gallery 435, Slough, UK

2006 Muestra Internacional de Arte, M.I.A.D. Venado Tuerto, Argentinaentina

“Size Matters”, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY

“July 2006”, Artists Respond To War, Europia Espace Galerie, Paris, France

2005 Emaar International Artist Symposium and Exhibition, Dubai, U.A.E

“Inspiration From Nature”, Galeriseni UKM, Bangi, Malaysia
“8th International Open Exhibition”, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Il

Common Thread, Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA

Discover, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY

Global Art Movement, MIAC, Medialworks, London

2004 Paul Sunderholm Gallery, “Opening Suite”, San Francisco, CA

“Miniatures”, Mark Palmer Gallery, Paducah, KY

2003 “Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea”, Florence, Italy
5th Place Painting, Lorenzo Al Magnifico Award

“Selections, 2003”, Artspan, San Francisco, CA

2002    “Small Wonders”, Hang Gallery,  San Francisco, CA

“Seeing Red”, Hang Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
“Postcards from the Edge”, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY

Somarts Gallery, “Open Studios 2002, San Francisco, CA
“Landscape/Mindscape”, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Pieces”, Café Arrivederci, San Rafael, CA

“Bay Area Currents”, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

“Major Abstract”, Intercultural Museum Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD

“East Bay Open Studios”, ProArts Gallery. Oakland, CA

“Fresh Paint”, Hollis Street Project, Emeryville, CA

2001 Somarts Gallery, “Open Studios 2001”, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Artists, Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000 “Open Studios 2000”, Oakdale Painting Studios, San Francisco, CA

Somarts Gallery, “Open Studios 2000”, San Francisco, CA

1997 Women's Artist's Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994 Group Invitational, Weigand Gallery, Belmont, CA

1992 “Touchstone Photographers”, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1991 “All-Media Membership Show”, The Art League, Alexandria, VA.

Award: 1st place, Franz Bader juror

“The New Touchstone”, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“10th Annual Northern Virginia Photography Exhibition”,

Gallery of the Ellipse, Arlington, VA.   Mark Power, juror
“Your Shot, Our Show”, Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C

“The Annual Art Exhibition at the Athenaeum”, Alexandria, Va., Julia Boyd, juror

“Gallery West Presents: The Artists of Touchstone”, Gallery West, Alexandria, VA

1990 The Art League All-Media Membership Show, The Art League, Alexandria, VA.

Award: 1st place, Collage, Jerry Clapsaddle, juror

The Gallery at the Ellipse, Arlington, VA

Washington Center for Photography, Washington, D.C.,

1989     “All-Media Non-Representational Show”, Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA

1982     UMC Fine Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

1981 “Visions From Chicago”, Saidye Bronfman Centre Museum, Montreal, Quebec Canada

"Furthering Photography”, 2nd Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston, IL.

1980 In a Plain Brown Wrapper, Chicago, IL

“Fourteen From Chicago”, invitational exhibition, Beloit, WI
“Art Attacks: A Social Disease”, Moming Dance and Arts Center, Chicago, IL

International Festival of Women in the Arts, New York, NY

Photoworks Gallery, invitational exhibition, Richmond, VA

1979 Chicago Public Library, Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

University of Ohio, Athens OH

Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, I

1978    “Women in the Arts”, invitational show, Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg,VA
“Virginia Museum Biennial”, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA

1977    “S.E. Photographic Competition”, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C.
Purchase Award

Optic Gazebo Gallery, Modesto, CA

“The Non-Silver Show”, The Light Factory, Charlotte, N.C.

1976 “Virginia Museum Biennial”, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA