Aug 2

Adam Collier Noel

Adam Collier Noel is a painter and collage artist who has exhibited extensively across the United States, especially in Florida. Recent showings include participation at Hampton Arts Fair, represented by George Billis Gallery, in Southampton, New York as well an exhibit with the gallery in New York City, and an exhibition with MAC art galleries in Delray Beach, Florida. Adam has been featured in multiple catalogues and collections on Saatchi Art and has participated in numerous art fairs including Red Dot Miami, Art Basel, Scope Art Miami, Art Palm Beach, and Palm Springs Fine Art Fair. His works remain in private collections in the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia. Notable publications include features in Voyage MIA magazine and Hotspots magazine.

The paintings often contain either symmetrical or asymmetrical grids, patterns, numbers, text, and found and reclaimed paper while the paint is usually executed with a palette knife. With profound pale, neutral, and pastel colors, Adam incorporates color theory, a sense of balance, and studies in texture to create these complex compositions. The use of patterns, text, and found paper are sometimes orchestrated in a way to appear like cryptic, coded symbols alluding to secret messages.

With a sense of grit and compositional expertise, the paintings, although roughly applied, come off clean, crisp, and holistic towards an intricate design. Some of the works may appear almost monochromatic while others reflect careful color formations to reflect a concept such as pale and rustic pastels to emit the notion of a beach boardwalk. Usually non-objective, the paintings convey emotionally-inducing palette knife strokes which reflect a grainy smear and atmosphere of layered constructs of paint and surface.

Universal (Law of Attraction) (pictured above) remains a painting of deep complexity with carefully arranged letters strategically placed with each other. These letters are laid out either vertically or horizontally and sometimes in portions. The cool, pale background of grays and whites contrast sharply with the stark black of the stenciled texts. Vintage paper underneath the paint almost appears like newspapers or mechanical engineering drawings as we can vaguely view intricate line work which could also be portions of grids from various forms. With a sense of ambiguity and mystery, the painting could be interpreted as an aesthetic in texture and contrast.

Adam Collier Noel presents works which reflect upon the flatness of the paint by using smears and textured layers. The paintings may come off as vintage and build upon color field painting of the 1970’s, abstract expressionism of the 1950’s, and pop art from the 1960’s. Pop art aesthetics can be found in the use of texts, numbers, and collaged found paper, while color field influences could be found in the almost monochromatic execution of some of the pieces along with patterned color, while abstract expressionism becomes reflected through the non-objectivity and erratic palette knife work in the art. With a sense of intuition and relationship with the paint and surface of the canvas, Adam Collier Noel creates presentations of deep contemporary aesthetics and integrative design principles.