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Imagery – Animals

  From the time mankind began to make marks and assemble stone, mud and sticks he has attempted to capture, in two or three dimensions, out of materials at hand, the wonder, respect and awe we feel for animals. From the caves at Lascoux to the sculptures created by modern artists is not such a big conceptual jump. Animals compel our attention by virtue of the similarities of their parts to our own. They provide clues as to how we are to act in this world. For that reason and others I sculpt them and present them to the viewer.

 

Imagery – Figures

  The body human is always in a state of response to life, even in repose. In its language of gesture it reflects our emotional, intellectual and physical state. In addition, it has the wonderful ability to store up a history of our responses to life in skin, muscle and bone and reveal them in a language all it’s own, universally understood and readily available for all to read at a glance. I like to think of my work as three dimensional poems in the language of the body.

 

Imagery – Abstract

  I think I began working abstractly when my emotional responses to the world around me simply outran my intellect. Perhaps, in my effort to interpret certain messages I was getting, I simply ran out of the language that representation allows. There seems to be some benefit for me in short-circuiting the connection to that part of the brain that demands recognition and relying on whatever takes control from that point to inform the work. Because the language of the abstract seems to be universally understood by those with the capacity to make that leap, I present them to the viewer, I do so with the understanding that the translation of each work is unique for each viewer and dependant upon what each viewer brings to the work.

 

Titles

  I am not very good at naming things. The skill that naming something demands is different then the skill it takes to conceive of it and create it. Sometimes, however, the naming of a piece is an essential ingredient to understanding it. Some of my works are well named and with others the title is merely descriptive. I feel no obligation to a title in most cases and if you have a work of mine the title of which does not adequately describe your reaction to the work, simply rename it to suit your response. It’s fine with me.

 

Poetry

  There are times when the static response of two or three dimensional forms is inadequate. Using words as a creative medium is something I have only toyed with, but words have allowed me to experience a flowing response to an idea from which I get a great deal of satisfaction. The blank page provides me with a canvas of such large scale that I can present a virtually unlimited response to an idea. I can add or delete, refine and pursue a thought within or without the confines of rhyme or the limits of substances and space. In a sense, it is not so different from working in two or three dimensions, in that each word or phrase elicits an image in my mind. Rather than the effect of a single image, I create using a myriad of these word images to create ever-changing word patterns that describe my emotional response to life that runs the gamut from spectacular to mundane.

 

 You can read some of my poems at my poetry blog –  http.poeticafterthoughts.blogspot.com  

 

The Artist – Daniel Noll

Truthfully, I haven’t kept track of where my art has been or who has purchased it, or of all the classes I’ve taken over the years, neither my life nor my mind has not been structured in a way that would make keeping a list of much of anything likely. The following includes information related to the total variety of art disciplines in which I have been involved – drawing, painting, sculpture, metal-smithing, ceramics and intaglio. Here’s the short list:

 

EXHIBITIONS IN THE U.S.

Galaxy Festival of Fine Arts – Galaxy Mall is part of a condo building across the river from the Midtown Manhatten (Barbara Streisand has a condo there. Very upscale) I won First Prize for sculpture. 1992.

Daniel Nolls One Man Art Show at the Interpretive Center at Liberty State Park which is right where you get on the ferry to the Statue of Liberty with the most incredible view of New York anywhere on the Hudson. 1992

National Juried Exhibition of Small Works – Montclair State Art Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey – 1992

One-of-a-Kind at the New Jersey Designer Craftsmen Gallery – New Brunswick, New Jersey – 1993

Summer Madness – Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, New Jersey -1992

Rituals – Alfieri Center, Main Gallery – Iselin, New Jersey – 1993

Pretense – William Carlos Williams Center for the Arts – Rutherford, New Jersey 1993

Rituals II at the Lincoln Center in New York City– Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall – NY – 1992

To Touch, To Feel, To Move… – New Jersey Library for the Blind and Handicapped – New Brunswick, N.J. – 1993

Ocean Plastique at the Lincoln Center in New York City – Cork Gallery – Avery Fisher Hall – NY – 1993

Arizona Museum for Youth – City of Mesa – Mesa Arizona – 1997\

Wildlife Sculpture Series at Cypress Gardens in Winterhaven Florida 1998

Bay Park Press Annual Members Show – San Diego, California – 2002 (etchings)

Art and Opera in the Loft – A show of my sculpture, prints and drawings sponsored by Prudential Real Estate at our loft in Hillcrest, San Diego CA

 

EXHIBITIONS IN MEXICO:

Abstract Ajijic –

• A show I organized in association with Lloyds Bank of Mexico showing non-representational abstract artwork of my own and 15 area artists

Abstractos de Jalisco y Juegos de Ninos –

• Una coleccion de arte abstracto de artistas residentes en Jalisco, Mexico. This show of thirty abstract artists from the State of Jalisco was organized by myself and presented in conjunction with Secretario de Cultura del Estado de Jalisco – Senor Francisco Barreda. – en  El Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo.

Daniel Noll – Exposicion Solo

• A one man show of sculpture, intaglio, drawing and painting in La Casa de Culturas de Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico.

 

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS

The Phoenix Zoo – Phoenix, Arizona

• 15 life-size and life-like animals in polychrome concrete and bronze located in two settings and placed throughout the Zoo. This was part of a project called Feel the Difference that was designed to allow the visually impaired an opportunity to feel the size and shape of animals. This exhibit was won an award from the City of Phoenix.

Wigwam Outlet Center – Litchfield, Arizona

• This project was part of a project planned in conjunction with the Arizona Department of Wildlife as part of a plan to reintroduce black footed ferrets back into their natural habitat in northern Arizona. The sculptures were 14 feet long of polychrome concrete.

The Sojourner Center in Phoenix, Arizona 

• A  foot long Desert Tortoise in the childrens play area at this center for abused women and children.

The Wells Fargo Bank in downtown Phoenix, Arizona  

• A life-size metal sculpture of the Wells Fargo Bank Logo of four horses pulling a stagecoach

Phoenix Symphony Hall, The Mercado and Bank One – Phoenix, Arizona

• A Christmas installation of 8 foot high Decorations made of welded metal – a co-operative effort with Michael Levine of Aardvark Armadillo.

Sky Harbor International Airport  - Phoenix, Arizona

• A Greenman mask of glazed Ceramic – part of a series.

 

PRIVATE COLECTIONS

My work is in many private collections in the US and various countries throughout the world.

 

GALLERIES

Bay Park Press Gallery – San Diego, California

Vanier Fine Arts – Scottsdale, Arizona

Aspen Fine Arts – Flagstaff, Arizona

Rock Resources Gallery of Fine Sculpture – A source of unique sculpture suited for garden settings.

Dos Lunas Gallery – Ajijic, Mexico

Ardens of Ajijic– Ajijic, Mexico

Jenniferharwellart Studio and Gallery – Birmingham, Alabama

 

DESIGN PROJECTS

For Gaylord Entertainment – The Dallas Opreyland Hotel in Dallas, Texas

• Three one-eighth scale models depicting life on a wagon train.

For the City of Flagstaff Public Advisory Committee

• A proposal depicting an aspect of life of the men who built the railroads.

 

EDUCATION

San Diego State University – printing, intaglio, metalsmithing  - 2003-04

Scottsdale Artist School – with Dan Ostermiller, Stanley Blyfield, Richard McDonald and others

The Education Alliance – New York City with Paul Lucchese – 1990

Mason Gross School of Fine Arts of Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ – 1990

Parkland College with University of Illinois – Chanpagne/Urbana, Illinois 1988-89

Arizona State University – Tempe, Arizona with Randy Schmidt, Kurt Wieser and others – 1985-86

Al Collins School of Graphic Design – Phoeniz, Arizona – Associates Degree in Graphic Design – 1983

Scottsdale Community College – Scottsdale, Arizona 1983

Bemidji State University – Bemidji, Minnesota – design and painting – 1980-81

 

TEACHING

Scottsdale Artist School – sculpture

Private classes - sculpture and ceramics in US and Mexico.