January 20–February 17, 2017
UNC Asheville’s juried national exhibition, Drawing Discourse, will open with special events on Jan. 20 featuring renowned artist; Scott Noel. The exhibition features 42 works of contemporary drawing selected from among 905 submissions by 321 artists representing 10 different countries.
Juror, Scott Noel received his BFA at Washington University in Saint Louis and is currently a professor of drawing and Painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Noel has curated exhibitions for museums, including The Evidence of the Senses at the Woodmere Art Museum in 1990 and Imaginative Affinities: Echoes of Edwin Dickinson in Contemporary American Painting at PAFA in 2002. He has been active writing catalog essays for artists: Lennart Anderson, Larry Day, Rose Naftulin and Sangram Majumdar. Noel has mounted over thirty solo exhibitions at museums, galleries and universities as well as many group shows nationwide. Solo shows have appeared at the State Museum in Harrisburg, the University of Virginia, the
Bowery Gallery, the Painting Center and he has a long history of exhibitions at the More Gallery, Mangel Art Gallery and Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia. Noel’s work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections. He has received grants from the Bader Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Independence Foundation as well as a fellowship to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. His work has been reviewed in Arts and Art in America and he has twice been profiled in American Artist.Noel, will provide an opening lecture about his practice from 5-6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 20 in the Humanities Lecture Hall. Noel’s talk will be followed by a reception in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery from 6–8 p.m.
All Drawing Discourse events are free and open to the public. For more information, email exhibit organizer Tamie Beldue, UNC Asheville Associate Professor at tbeldue@unca.edu.
