Noel Hefele

Category: Art

  • Painting as a focal practice.

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    Painting has such a commanding presence when I am “in the zone.” To sit there for hours upon end, extracting the shapes and colors from the mud changes my thinking, as if my brain is on another more vibrant level. Things become clear. I feel more articulate. To compare this with the feeling of spending…

  • Do I Like Diebenkorn anymore?

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    When you believe something so vehemently for years, it’s good to come back around to it and try and question what made you come to that belief in the first place. I still like him. Samantha asked me the otherday what it was, and I said the light. But I think it is really the…

  • Working on a New Self Portrait

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    Okay. Here is what it looks like right about now. It’s a running joke that I paint so many self portraits that I am my best subject. This is the first self portrait since this one. Just for the record, I have been painting other things. I’ve become aware of how these portraits work as…