Barbara Noah
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Barbara Noah | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 75–76) |
| Education | Mills College, Pratt Institute |
| Known for | painting, printmaking, photography, digital art, sculpture, installation art, public art |
| Movement | Contemporary |
| Awards | Artist Trust Twining Humber award, the Pollock/Krasner grant, Betty Bowen Merit Award from Seattle Art Museum |
| Website | http://www.barbaranoah.com/ |
Barbara Noah (born 1949)[1] is an artist who currently works with digital prints and mixed media, with past work in public art, photography, painting, print, and sculpture.[2]
Barbara Noah earned a bachelor's degree in art from Mills College in 1971,[3] where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She later earned an M.F.A. degree, in painting and serigraphy from Pratt Institute in 1975.[1]
Career
Noah is an artist working on hybrid works (painting, print, photography, digital art, sculpture, installations, public art) who has exhibited in venues such as the Henry Art Gallery, Artists Space, MoMA PS1, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Kala Art Institute.[4][5][6][7] In 1981, Noah's photography appeared in an exhibition alongside Ellen Carey and Cynthia Kanstein at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[8] In 1985, she was commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission to paint Seattle City Light's Canal Substation.[3]
In 2011, Noah received the Twining Humber Award from Artist Trust.[9]
From 2010 to 2022, Noah taught at the University of Washington, Bothell's School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. She taught painting, drawing, and mixed-media art classes that combine conceptual and cultural influences. These include possible mixtures of painting, drawing, sculptural components, found objects and materials, assemblage, collage, and other media. She also teaches classes based on concepts like social justice, humor, the narrative, and creativity.[10][better source needed] At the University of Washington, she also developed and directed an arts-centered study abroad program in Rome.[11]
Noah has also lectured at the University of California, Los Angeles, and California State University, Long Beach.[3] She has contributed writing to Art in America and ARTnews.[12][9]
In 2023, she created a piece, Life on Mars, for the Museum of Flight in Tukwila, Washington.[13]
Work
Her most recent series, Toss and Turn, was recently exhibited in a solo show at Davidson Galleries in Seattle.[14] The artist describes it as "an ironically titled series of digital pigment prints contemplating climate change and reflecting a personal and cultural desire for transcendent experiences and survival expressed through metaphoric figurative surrogates in terrestrial and distant skies".[10] Toss and Turn was a continuation of an earlier series, Likely Stories, which Noah was able to complete after winning the Twining Humber Award.[15]