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Artist Statement
The constructs of race and identity are best served slippery. My work constructs a world predicated on masquerade, through which issues of race, identity, ritual, and power are disrupted and slipped. Using psychoanalysis and the universality of the mythological hero’s journey as a spring-board, I created a fictional narrative of an androgynous child, Rinehart, his mother Gorgia, and step-father(step-farther) Murren. Riffing the Holy Family paradigm, I attempt to create a space in which polemics central to the human condition can be examined.
Tapestries, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and drawing are employed to engender Rinehart’s world. Sucking from ‘modern’ art forms, I wish to create a world in which our failures and triumphs as humans can be examined and poked. Ebony magazines are erased, leaving only lips and/or eyes, upon which Rinehart scribbles his notions of life. During performances audience members are invited to slip into costumes and participate in the bathing of a homeless man. Performance scripts are lifted from courtroom transcripts - only to be reenacted by invited performers. Head busts are sculpted from horse manure.
I am for work that advocates for carnivalesque and perverse logics as methodologies for consructing a more introspective audience.
The constructs of race and identity are best served slippery. My work constructs a world predicated on masquerade, through which issues of race, identity, ritual, and power are disrupted and slipped. Using psychoanalysis and the universality of the mythological hero’s journey as a spring-board, I created a fictional narrative of an androgynous child, Rinehart, his mother Gorgia, and step-father(step-farther) Murren. Riffing the Holy Family paradigm, I attempt to create a space in which polemics central to the human condition can be examined.
Tapestries, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and drawing are employed to engender Rinehart’s world. Sucking from ‘modern’ art forms, I wish to create a world in which our failures and triumphs as humans can be examined and poked. Ebony magazines are erased, leaving only lips and/or eyes, upon which Rinehart scribbles his notions of life. During performances audience members are invited to slip into costumes and participate in the bathing of a homeless man. Performance scripts are lifted from courtroom transcripts - only to be reenacted by invited performers. Head busts are sculpted from horse manure.
I am for work that advocates for carnivalesque and perverse logics as methodologies for consructing a more introspective audience.
CV
Noel W. Anderson
165 Meserole St., Apt #36
Brooklyn, NY 11206
noel.anderson40@gmail.com
(614) 507-3766
EDUCATION
2010 Yale University – Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture
New Haven, CT
2007 Indiana University – Master of Fine Arts,
Printmaking
Bloomington, IN
2003 Ohio Wesleyan University – Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Painting and Printmaking
Delaware, OH
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010 Cusp Performance (part of William Pope L.
exhibition landscape + object +
animal), Mitchell-Innes & Nash)
New York, New York
2009 Blood Drive, Zach Feuer Gallery
New York, New York
2008 Yale School of Art First Year Show, Interrogation
Room (Performance), Green Gallery,
New Haven, CT
2008 Repressed III, Gallery 5
Richmond, VA
2007 Timelapse, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
2007 Pre-Demolition Exhibition, Ladyman’s Building
Bloomington, IN
2007 Prainting and Prinstallation, Green Door Gallery
Kansas City, MO
2007 Voice and Vision: Celebrating Unique Voices of
Bloomington, Showers Building
Bloomington, IN
2007 Juried Printmaking Area Show, SOFA Gallery,
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2006 Hip-Hop Congress, McCalla School of Sculpture,
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2006 Potenti Impressioni: Stampe d’Arte italiane e
americane, Fondazione Bevilaequa La Masa
Venice, Italy
2006 Gossip, Lies, Half-truths, Penrose Gallery, Elkins
Park, Tyler School of Art
Philadelphia, PA
2006 I Have a Dream Juried Exhibition, ARC Gallery
Chicago, IL
2006 Juried Printmaking Area Show, SOFA Gallery,
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2005 Power in Print, Southern Graphics Council
Exhibition
Washington, D.C. and Venice, Italy
2004 Poetic Fusion, Performance, Martin Luther King Arts
Center
Columbus, OH
2003 Senior Thesis Show, Ohio Wesleyan University Ross
Museum
Delaware, OH
2003 College of Wooster 5 College Juried Exhibition,
Wooster Art Museum
Wooster, OH
2002 The Ohio State University Juried Exhibition, Pearl
Conrad Gallery
Mansfield, OH
SOLO SHOWS
2010 You’re Never too Old for Kool-Aid: reverb
(Performance), Yale School of Art
Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2009 Blue Velvet (Performance), Norfolk School of Art,
Norfolk, CT
2009 How to Scare a Lion (Performance), Yale University
Edgewood Gallery,
New Haven, CT
2009 Mantanence (Performance), Yale University
Edgewood Building
New Haven, CT
2007 Blak Mournin’ Majik, Fort Grunt,
Durham, NC
2007 Kum-sumjutashun, Fuller Project Space, Indiana
University
Bloomington, IN
2007 Blak Mournin’ Majik, SOFA Gallery, Indiana
University
Bloomington, IN
2005 Conversation Piece, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2005 Turn that Cakewalkin’ Music Off, Fuller Project
Space, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Noel W. Anderson
165 Meserole St., Apt #36
Brooklyn, NY 11206
noel.anderson40@gmail.com
(614) 507-3766
EDUCATION
2010 Yale University – Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture
New Haven, CT
2007 Indiana University – Master of Fine Arts,
Printmaking
Bloomington, IN
2003 Ohio Wesleyan University – Bachelor of Fine Arts,
Painting and Printmaking
Delaware, OH
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2010 Cusp Performance (part of William Pope L.
exhibition landscape + object +
animal), Mitchell-Innes & Nash)
New York, New York
2009 Blood Drive, Zach Feuer Gallery
New York, New York
2008 Yale School of Art First Year Show, Interrogation
Room (Performance), Green Gallery,
New Haven, CT
2008 Repressed III, Gallery 5
Richmond, VA
2007 Timelapse, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
2007 Pre-Demolition Exhibition, Ladyman’s Building
Bloomington, IN
2007 Prainting and Prinstallation, Green Door Gallery
Kansas City, MO
2007 Voice and Vision: Celebrating Unique Voices of
Bloomington, Showers Building
Bloomington, IN
2007 Juried Printmaking Area Show, SOFA Gallery,
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2006 Hip-Hop Congress, McCalla School of Sculpture,
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2006 Potenti Impressioni: Stampe d’Arte italiane e
americane, Fondazione Bevilaequa La Masa
Venice, Italy
2006 Gossip, Lies, Half-truths, Penrose Gallery, Elkins
Park, Tyler School of Art
Philadelphia, PA
2006 I Have a Dream Juried Exhibition, ARC Gallery
Chicago, IL
2006 Juried Printmaking Area Show, SOFA Gallery,
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2005 Power in Print, Southern Graphics Council
Exhibition
Washington, D.C. and Venice, Italy
2004 Poetic Fusion, Performance, Martin Luther King Arts
Center
Columbus, OH
2003 Senior Thesis Show, Ohio Wesleyan University Ross
Museum
Delaware, OH
2003 College of Wooster 5 College Juried Exhibition,
Wooster Art Museum
Wooster, OH
2002 The Ohio State University Juried Exhibition, Pearl
Conrad Gallery
Mansfield, OH
SOLO SHOWS
2010 You’re Never too Old for Kool-Aid: reverb
(Performance), Yale School of Art
Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2009 Blue Velvet (Performance), Norfolk School of Art,
Norfolk, CT
2009 How to Scare a Lion (Performance), Yale University
Edgewood Gallery,
New Haven, CT
2009 Mantanence (Performance), Yale University
Edgewood Building
New Haven, CT
2007 Blak Mournin’ Majik, Fort Grunt,
Durham, NC
2007 Kum-sumjutashun, Fuller Project Space, Indiana
University
Bloomington, IN
2007 Blak Mournin’ Majik, SOFA Gallery, Indiana
University
Bloomington, IN
2005 Conversation Piece, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
2005 Turn that Cakewalkin’ Music Off, Fuller Project
Space, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid: This image is the entrance of Rinehart’s step-father(step-farther) Murren; dimension vary
2009
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid:Image of Murren healing/bathing Gary (homeless male); dimension vary
2009
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid:Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid:
Image of Murren healing/bathing Gary (homeless male); dimension vary
2009
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid:Image of Murren healing/bathing Gary (homeless male); dimension vary
2009
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid:Image of Rinehart lip-singing Bobby Vinton’s “Blue Velvet”; dimension vary
2009
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid:Image of Rinehart interviewing contestants for Musical Chairs; dimension vary
2009
Performance still: You’re Never Too Old for Kool-Aid Reverb:Gorgia opening the show. Image includes custom tapestry, sculptures, foam mats, dirt, objects frozen in ice; dimension vary
2010
Never Too Old for Kool-Aid Reverb:Image of cross-dressing chorus lip-singing Jackie Wilson’s “Please Tell me Why”. Image includes custom tapestry, sculptures, foam mats, dirt, objects frozen in ice; dimension vary
2010
Never Too Old for Kool-Aid Reverb:Gorgia crying to audience; dimension vary;
2010
Image of sculpture: “doG’s head.horse manure, taxidermy eyes, comedy LP’s; 14in x 14in. x 48in.; 2010
Image of sculpture: “doG’s head.horse manure, taxidermy eyes, comedy LP’s; 14in x 14in. x 48in.; 2010
cast hydrocal box, paint, pallet, horse manure, taxidermy eyes, toilet plunger; 49in. x 36in. x 33in.; 2010
“Premium doG” (detail)cast hydrocal box, paint, pallet, horse manure, taxidermy eyes, toilet plunger; 49in. x 36in. x 33in.; 2010
“Premium doG” (detail)cast hydrocal box, paint, pallet, horse manure, taxidermy eyes, toilet plunger; 49in. x 36in. x 33in.; 2010
“Say Cheese”custom tapestry, 70in. x 50in.; 2010
“Kool-Aid Cosmology”Digital print, chine colle, intaglio; 16in. x 16in.; 2010
“Kool-Aid Cosmology” (detail)Digital print, chine colle, intaglio; 16in. x 16in.; 2010
“Gorgia Cosmology”Digital print, paint marker; 35in x 32in.; 2010
“Boon Toilet”cast hydrocal box, paint, cast block of deodorant, horse manure, pillow, wood, portable toilet; 2010
“Boon Toilet” (detail)cast hydrocal box, paint, cast block of deodorant, horse manure, pillow, wood, portable toilet; 2010