Adam Collier Noel is keenly adept at weaving together the real and abstract, the vintage and modern, and the pristine and stained in work that combines photographic imagery and ingenious mark making that can only be classified as contemporary and progressive.”

— Paul SakaiOwner Bibelot Gallery Honolulu, Hawaii

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All of these images represent a moment in time that was documented and put out into the world with no attached explanation, drifting through time until found again over and over. There’s a story there. And it’s one that artist Adam Collier Noel incorporates as he uses the found images in his work, which is anchored in these remembrances of things past with a reimagination of the moment captured. To some degree his work has a stream of consciousness to it, says Noel. He’s not over-thinking their creation, allowing for each work to have a say in its direction. Noel puts the image on a random grid, applying the materials, which in turn present themselves in a unique geometry.”

— Excerpt from “Lost (and found) at Sea: The Work of Adam Collier Noel”Steve Desroches Provincetown Magazine

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Even though I am not the photographer of these relics, I feel I am their curator. What would otherwise be lost or tucked away I have given a new life, purpose and narrative.”

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“At a time when practically everyone has access to a digital camera and countless newsnapshots are being made everyday, I have chosen to explore photographs that have been forgotten, lost or disregarded. These ambiguous, yet familiar, images traverse universal cultural themes such as nature, science, history and the physical form. My photography-based mixed media artworks rely heavily on the appropriation of these found images and their relationship to the contemporary world through the lens of popular culture.

Antique and mid-century photography play a major role in my work. I have often expressed that I may not necessarily be the photographer of these relics, but through my artistic interpretation, I feel I am their curator. I am particularly interested in late 19th century stereoscopic photography and the viewing cards produced with this technique. For me these dual images (which produce a three-dimensional image when seen through a special viewing device) not only create powerful compositions, but reference the history of photography and its contribution to the modern world.

Employing a combination of technological and traditional processes in my paper-based creations affords me the opportunity to reinterpret the original history of the found image through an enhanced narrative. My inspiration is derived from the meaning inherent in the images I find, as well as the materials I pair them with. Blue prints, letters of correspondence, receipts, book pages, etc. are often layered with the photographs to reflect the importance of paper as a record of human history, and a place where ideas are written and discoveries are documented. An enhanced narrative is created when they are superimposed with text, ink, collage, paint, graphite and various other materials. My goal is to build upon the rich history ofthe image, and give a new life, purpose and narrative to what would otherwise be lost. As a result, the combination of old and new creates a transcendence of time and a revitalization of the past. It is through my artistic interpretation that I pay homage to optics, ways of seeing, and the grand tradition of photography."

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EDUCATION2002, BFA of photography, Indiana University Herron School of Art & Design

REPRESENTATIONForré Fine Art Gallery; Fort Lauderdale, FL, Vail & Aspen, CO Evan Lurie Gallery; Indianapolis, INDaDe Art & Design Lab; Calgary, Aberta CanadaSoho Myriad, Art Consulting Services; Atlanta, Los Angeles, UK Lyman-Eyer Gallery; Provincetown, MACocco & Salem Gallery; Key West, FL

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS <2014>

The 11: A Collective; Pop-Up Gallery, Indianapolis, INSummer Heat V: Juried Group Show; Tom Rossetti Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL Flagler Village Art Walk; Studio Henning Haupt, Fort Lauderdale, FLSecond Saturday Art Walk; Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, INPalm Springs Fine Art Fair – Palm Springs, CAArt Palm Beach – Palm Beach, FL

<2013>Scope: Art Miami 2013 – Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL6th Annual Juried Show – Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CANew Male Works – Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MAArt Comes Alive – Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OHKinsey Institute’s 8th Annual Juried Art Show – Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, INDecorators’ Show House and Gardens – Schnull-Rouch House, Indianapolis, IN20th Annual Stutz Artist’s Open House – Indianapolis, IN

<2012>Sleep Event – Installation collaboration with artist Debbie Smyth, London8th Annual iDADA Members Exhibition – Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, INSolo Exhibition – Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, INArt Comes Alive (Purchase Award Winner) – Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH19th Annual Stutz Artist’s Open House – Indianapolis, INTen Yards Superbowl Exhibition – Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

<2011>Sugar Plum Art Show – Harrison Gallery, Indianapolis, INUnclothed: Exposing the Art Nude – Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, INSecond Saturday – Eye On Art Gallery, Carmel, INHerron Alumni Show (Merit Award Winner) – Marsh Gallery, Indianapolis, IN18th Annual Stutz Artist’s Open House – Indianapolis, INGray Matters – The Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

<2009>Black & White & Red All Over – The Harrison Gallery, Indianapolis, INHomegrown – Editions Limited Gallery, Indianapolis, INThe Artful Lens – Stutz Art Space Gallery, Indianapolis, IN

BIBLIOGRAPHYStudio Visit Magazine, Open Studios Press, Spring 2014Vitruvian Lens Magazine, Firehouse Publishing, October 2013: issuu.com/boxartist/docs/vl_2_excerpt_ppProvincetown Magazine, “Lost (and found) at Sea,” Steve Desroches, July 2013: provincetownmagazine.com/2013/07/10/lost-and-found-at-sea

COLLECTIONSPrivate collections throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Australia

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