Critic Carl Little has called my work 'ghostly', which is a concise description of what I do. My work appears incomplete, unfocused and unclear, which requires the viewer to create their own narrative of what is going on in the piece they are looking at. I use my own collection of more than 11,000 images of antique family, found and appropriated photographic images to make works of experience meaningful to myself and grounded in the context of my own life.
In starting a new piece, I find a photo that attracts me- usually 3 figures, umbrellas, horses, boats. I scan the photo into my computer (If not already on my hard drive) and begin working on it using a digital Intous drawing tablet with Picture Window (re-sizing, cropping), Adobe Elements (adding, removing or changing the colors) and Corel Painter (best for make pixels behave like oils).
My medium has changed over the past 52 years, from oils to acrylics to a large format inkjet printer, but my subject matter has pretty much remained unchanged. I am currently using hand-painted newsprint as my support upon which I print and re-print images using a 44 inch Epson archival printer (this is not suitable for everyone, as you must be good with mechanical problems when using a printer like this). I usually mist the 33x38 inch print with water to force the inks to run. When the paper is dry, I gesso it over lightly and re-print the image. I work this way until I find the composite seems to be finished. This may take several days to a few weeks. I build a 30x30 stretched canvas, trim the newsprint to fit and using acrylics glue the print to the canvas. I use acrylic gel glazes, pencil, gesso, and sometimes stencils to finish the piece.
Biography
PETREA NOYES
b. 1946 New York
Education
1964-65 Colorado State University, Fine Arts degree program
1965-67 Silvermine College of Art, AFA program
1968 Northwestern University
1969-72 University of Miami, BA
SOLO EXHIBITS
2013 Archipelago Gallery, Island Institute Rockland ME....2 person exhibition
2012 Stable Gallery Featured Artist, Main Salon, Damariscotta ME
2011 'New Work', Unity College Center for the Performing Arts, Unity ME
2011 Stable Gallery 'Featured Artist:Main Salon', Damariscotta ME
2010 'Eternal Whispers', 2-person exhibition, Harlow Gallery, Augusta ME
2009 'The Federle Project', Harlow Gallery Annex, Augusta ME
2008 'Relatives' Turner Center for the Arts, Turner ME
2007 'Machinations', The Stadler Gallery, Kingfield ME
2007 'Mixed Media', The Belfast Co-Op, Belfast ME
1988 'Stills', Old Lyme Center Gallery, Old Lyme CT
1987 'Petrea Noyes: New Work', Old Lyme Art Center, Old Lyme CT
1979 'Stripes', Mystic Art Gallery, Mystic CT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
'Paste & Pages', Harlow Gallery, Augusta ME
'More Than Black and White', Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island ME
'Critters and Creatures', Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island ME….June 2013
'Inside/Outside', Betts Gallery, Belfast ME
'Earth', Waterfall Arts Gallery, Belfast ME
'Radius Belfast', Aarhus Gallery, Belfast ME
2012
CSA: Community Supporting Agriculture....multi-venue 10-month 14 artist-farmers paired for project for Harlow Gallery, Hallowell
FUSE: 19 Encaustic Artists, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell ME
Art 2012, Harlow Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition, Hallowell ME
'Flora and Fauna', RiverArts Gallery, Damariscotta ME....juror Henry Isaacs
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