October 13 – November 16, 2024
Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery
Reception & Awards Ceremony, Sunday, October 13 3-5pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, November 2, 11:30am
Information about Scott Noel’s Gallery Talk
The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative - A Juried Exhibition includes 67 exceptional paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographic works invited to the exhibition by juror Scott Noel from a large, diverse and competitive pool of submissions. The work that comprises this regional juried exhibition has been created by artists from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia and connects with the overlapping territories of portraiture and visual storytelling as it celebrates the figure.
Juror Scott Noel
Scott Noel serves as juror for The Figure: Portraiture & Narrative – A Juried Exhibition.
After completing undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, Noel moved to Philadelphia in 1978. His first important solo exhibition was in the Fleisher Challenge Series in 1980. Since that time, he has mounted over 40 major shows across the country. Noel is represented by Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia and his work is included in numerous private, public and corporate collections including the Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Arkansas Art Center and the Pennsylvania Convention Center. From 1996-2024, Noel taught drawing and painting in the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His legacy as an educator also includes teaching at The University of the Arts, Arcadia University and Community College of Philadelphia.
“Figure paintings have always wedded specific individuals with narrative roles. Think of Lorenzo de Medici, Hendrickje, Stoffels, Victorine Meurent and Leigh Bowery playing both themselves and characters in the pictorial fictions of Botticelli, Rembrandt, Monet and Lucian Freud. Almost all figure paintings imply a question about the relationship between the model and the role they play even in boardroom portraits of captains of industry. Characterization, analysis, likeness and a sense of drama are entangled in visual art.” – Juror Scott Noel
THE FIGURE: PORTRAITURE & NARRATIVE EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Ellen Abraham, PA
Kassem Amoudi, PA
Constance Antonio, NJ
Ann Antoshak, NJ
Maria Archer, PA
Beth Bathe, PA
Patrick Bell, PA
Barbara Berry, PA
Leslie Bowen, PA
Edward A. Butler, NY
Gail Chapman, PA
Jim Conner, PA
Lesa Cook, MD
Charles Cooper, NJ
Mateus Costa, PA
Teresa DeSeve, PA
Corinne Dieterle, PA
Elise Dodeles, NJ
Michael Doyle, NJ
Laura Ducceschi, PA
Morgan Dummitt, PA
Nathan Durnin, PA
Julia Eisen-Lester, NY
Sarah Fantuzzo, PA
Johanna Foster, NJ
Melissa Frederick, PA
Michael Garrity, PA
Sophie Gibson, NY
Nancy Granda, PA
Stephanie Grant, PA
Jim Green, PA
Gary Grissom, PA
Nicholas James Harris, PA
David Heshmatpour, PA
William Karaffa, PA
Melanie Landrith, PA
Ann-Charlotte Lax-Antrim, PA
Cherie Lee, NJ
Suzanne Loechl, VA
Rita Lugrine, PA
Karen McCool, PA
Deanna Mclaughlin, PA
John Meehan, PA
Alice Meymer-Wallace, PA
Thomas Miles, PA
Thomas Murray, NJ
Noemi Nieves-Hoblin, PA
Ernest Norcia, PA
Brendan O’Neill, PA
Phil Palmieri, NY
Steven Pearson, PA
Sarah Peters, PA
Claudia Rilling, PA
Kim Robbins, PA
Hege Robinson, PA
Jillian Robostello,PA
Blane Sage, VA
Denise Sedor, PA
Anne Singer, MD
John Slivjak, PA
Kourtney Stone, PA
William Sulit, PA
Josephine G. Viviani, PA
Lisa DeLoria Weinblatt, NY
Noel Yheaulon, PA
Harold Zabady, PA
