27 Jun Marshall Noice at Telluride’s Lustre Gallery
Artist will be painting on site at Lustre Gallery, 171 South Pine. Artist reception this Sunday, June 29, noon – 6 p.m.
Blue Sky, Buffalo Hill, by Marshall Noice
In sync with the artists gathering in town for the Sheridan Art Foundation’s 11th annual Telluride Plein Air, a major outdoor show featuring American Impressionists that runs through Saturday, July 5, Lustre Gallery presents the work of Marshall Noice. The artist’ is on site at 171 South Pine Street creating vivid abstractions that appear lit from the inside, a great excuse to stop bo for those who just can’t get enough light in their lives.
Noice never met a sky or a tree he did not like. For about 40 years, the artist has indulged his obsession with landscapes. What we see in his work resembles the outside world the artist depicts much in the way a guitar case resembles a guitar: Noice is not painting a grove of trees for instance. He is depicting his emotional response to a grove of trees, which makes him an Expressionist for those who require an “ist” or an “ism,” an Expressionist with an Impressionist technique and a Fauve sense of color.
Reservoir, Summer, by Marshall Noice
Since retiring as a photographer, Noice earned a national following as a contemporary Expressionist artist with work in galleries in Santa Fe, Jackson Hole, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and other hot spots – such as Telluride.
Noice, who is a self-taught painter, has literally spent tens of thousands of hours perfecting his style in oils, working in his Kalispell, Montana studio five days a week when he is not on the road. Among his influences the artist lists Impressionist Pierre Bonnard, who made dreamy, abstracted landscapes of everyday life, and Abstract Expressionist Marc Rothko, who attempted to capture the spiritual resonance of a landscape in his color fields. It was those iconic painters who helped Noice develop an intuitive and unique spin on his work. For the slightly off-key way he deals with complementary colors to add dynamic tension to his work, Noice credits Joe Abbrescia.
“The more I can keep my heart in the process – and my head out – the happier I am with the result,” said the artist.
Noice works on a dozen or more images at a time, allowing layers to before adding the next up to 1- to 15 applications of paint for texture and pop. It can be weeks, even years, before the artist declares a work done.
East Valley Icon, by Marshall Noice
Lustre Gallery is honored to represent Marshall’s work in Telluride. His paintings also grace the walls of one of Telluride’s most popular restaurants, 221 South Oak.
Meet Noice on Sunday or call 970-728-3355 for an appointment
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