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Alexandra Noel

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Alexandra Noel

b. 1989

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 

 

Alexandra Noel paints on intimately scaled panels, exploring a vast range of subject matter and styles within her consistent format. Though small, her paintings are boundless in scale—horizon lines stretch the length of wider panels, specked with diminutive architecture to indicate their scope; aerial views render tabletops a stage for drama and combat; and scenes viewed through the lens of a child’s temporary, truncated vantage point recur. Facture and subject often collapse in Noel’s work, as in a series of cake paintings, thickly impastoed on their surface as though generously frosted, sometimes hung in tight proximity like a set of sharply cut slices, with Noel’s signature enameled edges behaving as the dough within. In another series of tornado paintings, panel size is exploited and exceeded, as Noel uses a single, continuous brush stroke to drag the contents of the earth into a turbulent sky with control and ease akin to nature's force. Spanning geometric abstraction, photorealistic detail, the monochrome and more, Noel's works employ various visual strategies to augment and enhance the details of observed reality.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2013MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2011BA, Visual Arts, University of San Diego, CA

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024Due, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy
2022

Three, Four, Derosia, New York, NY 

Table, Crèvecoeur, Paris

2021Funny Looking, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China
2019

There’s always something, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY

Just a head, Atlantis, Marseille, France 

Master Planned, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France 

2018

Theatre Road, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Solo presentation with Bodega (Derosia), Frieze London, London, United Kingdom

2017Solo presentation with Bodega (Derosia), The Armory Show, New York, NY
2016

From rafters, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY 

Bone-in, Neochrome, Turin, Italy

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

Double Threshold, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA

What Men Live By, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

2023

Portals, Stars, Los Angeles, CA

Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, curated by Robin Peckam, Antenna Space, Shanghai, China

How Unreal We Are, curated by Shivers Only, SIRA, Asnières-sur-Seine, France

Anything can pass before the eyes of a person, Derosia, New York, NY

Cool Invitations 10, XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan

Cupid's Bow, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA

Basic Fit, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

2022

Small Fixations, curated by Chiara Nuzzi, ICA Milano, Milan, Italy

FRONT International Triennial 2022, Cleveland, OH 

A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Chambres d’Amis: Ikea, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

2021

Particularities, curated by Chris Sharp, X Museum, Beijing, China

Landscape, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY

La Boîte-en-Valise, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

2020

Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum and The Huntington, Los Angeles, CA 

The Sentimental Organization of the World, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France

From the X-Mas Tree of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Bolthole, Potts, Los Angeles, CA

A Cloth Over a Birdcage, Château Shatto, Los Angeles, CA

2018

Metamorphõseõn, Galerie Sultana, Paris, France

Kiss in Tears, curated by XYZ Collective, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, CA

Condo NY hosting Crèvecoeur (Paris), Bodega (Derosia), New York NY

Tiger Poems and Songs for Hurricanes, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico

Annex Showroom, M+B, Los Angeles, CA

2017

By the lakeside, organized by Yui Yaegashi, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

Kill it on vacation, The Steak House Doskoi via XYZ Collective, Tokyo, Japan

Economy Plus, curated by Camille Blatrix, Balice Hertling, Paris, France

2016

Instrument of the Homecoming, The Sunroom, Richmond, VA

Aquél que camina delante, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico

Commodus Operandi, curated by Ryan Kortman, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL 

All at Once, with Naoki Sutter-Shudo, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Le domaine enchanté, Galleria Acappella, Naples, Italy

Aunt Nancy, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

El Que Camina Al Lado, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

2015

Arrears, Strongroom, Los Angeles, CA

Sara two, Hester, New York, NY

Comforter, Shanaynay, Paris, France

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2022Thirty Stuffed Grape Leaves, published by Apogee, LA; Derosia, New York; and Holoholo Books, Paris
2020Ricky Rides Rick, published by Apogee, LA; Bodega Press, New York; and Holoholo Books, Paris
2017Take me out, please, published by saxpublishers, Vienna, Austria
2015

By Rote, published by Holoholo Books, Paris, France

Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda interview, 356 Mission blog

2014Comment Section #2, published by Holoholo Books, Paris, France

 

 

SELECTED PRESS

 

Alexandra Noel, Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, October 10, 2022, Print

Alexandra Noel at Derosia, Nathaniel Lee, Turning Point, September 22, 2022

Interview with Brainard Carey, Yale University Radio, June 13, 2022

Kissing Through a Bullet Hole: Alexandra Noel, Travis Diehl, Mousse 76, Print

Made in L.A. 2020: a verson, Art Agenda, Travis Diehl, November 17, 2020

Paris Roundup, Flash Art, Alex Bennett, December 3, 2019

Alexandra Noel, Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker, November 8, 2019, Print

Orion Martin and Alexandra Noel at Potts, KCRW, November 2019, Radio

Alexandra Noel Proves Small Is Mighty at Bodega, Art of Choice, Maria Vogel, October 31, 2019

The Best Shows in Los Angeles Right Now, Jonathan Griffin, Frieze, October 9, 2019

Alexandra Noel at Freedman Fitzpatrick/Atlantis, Contemporary Art Writing Daily, July 20, 2019

Los Angeles Round-Up, Christina Catherine Martinez, art agenda, February 28, 2019

Les peintures talismans d’Alexandra Noel, Julie Ackerman, BeauxArts, February 27, 2019

Alexandra Noel; Alan Turner, Annabel Osberg, Artillery Magazine, January 2, 2019

10 of the Best Artworks at Frieze London 2018, Andrew Goldstein, Artnet News, October 4, 2018

Kiss in Tears at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Daily Lazy, August 2018

Five Shows to See at Condo New York, Perwani Nazif, Elephant Magazine, June 26, 2018

FIAC and Paris Internationale, Sabrina Tarasoff, Art Agenda, October 2016

15 New York Gallery Shows Where You’ll Find Exciting Young Artists This June, Casey Lesser, Artsy, June 2, 2016

Alexandra Noel, Elisabetta Tolosano, Flash Art, March 2016, Print

“Sara two” at HESTER, New York, Mousse Magazine, June 2015

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Long Museum, Shanghai, China

Start Museum, Shanghai, China

X Museum, Beijing, China

 

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