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Adam Collier Noel is keenly adept at weaving together the real and abstract, the vintage and modern, and the pristine and stained in work that combines photographic imagery and ingenious mark making that can only be classified as contemporary and progressive.” — Paul Sakai Former Owner Bibelot Gallery Honolulu, Hawaii
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All of these images represent a moment in time that was documented and put out into the world with no attached explanation, drifting through time until found again over and over. There’s a story there. And it’s one that artist Adam Collier Noel incorporates as he uses the found images in his work, which is anchored in these remembrances of things past with a reimagination of the moment captured. To some degree his work has a stream of consciousness to it, says Noel. He’s not over-thinking their creation, allowing for each work to have a say in its direction. Noel puts the image on a random grid, applying the materials, which in turn present themselves in a unique geometry.” — Excerpt from “Lost (and found) at Sea: The Work of Adam Collier Noel” Steve Desroches Provincetown Magazine
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Even though I may not neccessarily be the photographer of these relics, I feel I am their curator. What would otherwise be lost forever I have given a new life, purpose and narrative.” — Adam Collier Noel
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At a time when practically everyone has access to a digital camera and countless new snapshots are being made everyday, I have chosen to explore photographs that have been forgotten, lost or disregarded. These ambiguous, yet familiar, images traverse universal cultural themes such as nature, science, history and the physical form. My photography-based, mixed media artworks rely heavily on the appropriation of these found images and their relationship to the contemporary world through the lens of popular culture. I have often expressed that I may not necessarily be the photographer of these relics, but through my artistic interpretation I feel I am their curator. Vintage photography often plays a major role in my work, and the photographs I have chosen to work with are archetypes and symbols representing some facet of the human experience. These images symbolize the 'everyman' and I very much like the idea of the viewer recognizing a familiarity in these portraits. Employing a combination of technological and traditional processes in my paperbased creations affords me the opportunity to reinterpret the original history of the found image through an enhanced narrative. My inspiration is derived from the meaning inherent in the images I find, as well as the materials I pair them with. Blue prints, letters of correspondence, receipts, book pages, etc. are often layered with the photographs to reflect the importance of paper as a record of human history, and a place where ideas are written and discoveries are documented. An enhanced narrative is created when they are superimposed with text, ink, collage, paint, graphite and various other materials. My goal is to build upon the rich history of the image, and give a new life, purpose and narrative to what would otherwise be lost. As a result, the combination of old and new creates a transcendence of time and a revitalization of the past. It is through my artistic interpretation that I pay homage to optics, ways of seeing, and the grand tradition of photography." — Adam Collier Noel
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EDUCATION 2002, BFA of photography, Indiana University Herron School of Art & Design REPRESENTATION Forré Fine Art Gallery; Fort Lauderdale, FL, Vail & Aspen, CO Evan Lurie Gallery; Indianapolis, IN DaDe Art & Design Lab; Calgary, Aberta Canada Soho Myriad, Art Consulting Services; Atlanta, Los Angeles, UK Lyman-Eyer Gallery; Provincetown, MA Cocco & Salem Gallery; Key West, FL EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS <2014> Where The Boys Are; Forre Fine Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL The 11: A Collective; Pop-Up Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Summer Heat V: Juried Group Show; Tom Rossetti Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL Flagler Village Art Walk; Studio Henning Haupt, Fort Lauderdale, FL Second Saturday Art Walk; Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, IN Palm Springs Fine Art Fair – Palm Springs, CA Art Palm Beach – Palm Beach, FL <2 013> Scope: Art Miami 2013 – Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL 6th Annual Juried Show – Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA New Male Works – Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA Art Comes Alive – Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH Kinsey Institute’s 8th Annual Juried Art Show – Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, IN Decorators’ Show House and Gardens – Schnull-Rouch House, Indianapolis, IN 20th Annual Stutz Artist’s Open House – Indianapolis, IN <2012> Sleep Event – Installation collaboration with artist Debbie Smyth, London 8th Annual iDADA Members Exhibition – Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN Solo Exhibition – Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN Art Comes Alive (Purchase Award Winner) – Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH 19th Annual Stutz Artist’s Open House – Indianapolis, IN Ten Yards Superbowl Exhibition – Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN <2011> Sugar Plum Art Show – Harrison Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Unclothed: Exposing the Art Nude – Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Second Saturday – Eye On Art Gallery, Carmel, IN Herron Alumni Show (Merit Award Winner) – Marsh Gallery, Indianapolis, IN 18th Annual Stutz Artist’s Open House – Indianapolis, IN Gray Matters – The Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN <2009> Black & White & Red All Over – The Harrison Gallery, Indianapolis, IN Homegrown – Editions Limited Gallery, Indianapolis, IN The Artful Lens – Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Spring 2014 Vitruvian Lens Magazine, Firehouse Publishing, October 2013: issuu.com/boxartist/docs/vl_2_excerpt_pp Provincetown Magazine, “Lost (and found) at Sea,” Steve Desroches, July 2013: provincetownmagazine.com/2013/07/10/lost-and-found-at-sea COLLECTIONS Private collections throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia
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