NOELLE VELEZ

Field Resident, May 7 - June 16, 2023

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NOELLE’S PROJECT

During the Field Residency I would endeavor to make much larger paintings on canvas with the same narrative content of the smaller ones I have been making as daily paintings. I would also like to experiment with life sized and larger works on canvas and made out of cut paper. Masks are intensely fascinating to me and I would like to try making more wearable and immersive pieces to be painted back into the larger works too.

Artist Biography

Noelle Velez is an artist based in New York City. She earned her BFA at SUNY Purchase in 2018. Noelle’s work explores a vivid personal mythology full of archetypal characters informed by both personal history and an eclectic blend of pop culture sourced from the internet and beyond. The lurid colors and contents of Velez’s subconscious appear in an approachable cartoon lexicon and deal with ideas related to acting as an intermediary and interloper between cultures, and the supposed poles of gendered self expression.