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Born in Baltimore, MD and raised in San Diego, CA, artist Lindsey Nobel has called
New York City her home since 1996. Since 1993, she has been developing and building
upon a novel conceptual language that expresses her vision of human interaction,
"man-made waves," and frequencies of energy, both biological and electronic. Her
work explores the interfaces between human psychology, technology, and the
cataclysmic transference of energies.
The result has taken many forms. Nobel often creates work in gridded forms, with the
grids representing human-imposed and natural constructs of order. At a 2000 showing
at GenArt ("Generational Art," a program showcasing talented young artists in New
York City) in which Nobel was featured, she presented a grid of 16 square wood
panels, arranged four by four, in which each panel was named after a person whom has
affected Nobel in her life. The figures, one on each panel, appeared as dancing
neuron-like forms, or creatures, with thin extended tendrils on a pitch black
background, coated in a shiny resin. These "neuron- creatures" seemed to stretch out
and relate to each other in their ordered places in this display, but as they were
intended to be sold individually, they were destined to end up in different places,
in different permutations, as fate would determine. Their neat grid of interaction
was to be broken up and rearranged. This is the nature of human relationships. This
is the essence of Nobel's work.
Sometimes her grid forms appear in subtle ink patterns on notebook-sized watercolor
paper, sometimes upon feet-long canvases upon bold, but somehow muted, colors.
Nobel utilizes multiple media including plastic, film and digital photography, ink,
various kinds of paints, medical applicators and data, colored and carbonated water,
skulls, eggs, and many other materials to create her sculpture, video, drawing,
painting, photography, and other forms of expression. Her newest painting series
features paints applied with medical syringes upon canvas. Another new series
incorporates a plastic surgeon's medical documentary photographs of accident
victims' faces, which she integrates into her signature "neuron" paintings. She has
presented her work in the forms of drawing, painting, installation work and video.
Nobel was educated at The Royal College of Art, London, The School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, MA, and The University of California at Santa Cruz, respectively.
Her works have been presented in solo shows at Nicolai Fine Art Gallery, The Chelsea
Hotel, GenArt @ the Puck Building, and Project 3 am (all in New York City, NY),
Schroeder Romero Gallery, Bingo Hall, Pollock Fine Art Gallery, and EO IPSO Gallery
(all in Brooklyn, NY), and The Cartelle Gallery (in Los Angeles, California). Nobel
has also had a duo show with the late artist Sol Lewitt.