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  • Ultimate dART: MA show 2010

    Come see the final hurrah of the Dartington College of Arts before it moves to University College of Falmouth. from low profile Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday, July 20th 21st and 22nd 2010 at Dartington Campus.

  • Show Time Again. The Countdown Begins.

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    It is roughly 100 days until the MA show here at the Dartington Campus of the University College Falmouth.  It is a very strange experience—the Dartington Campus will move to the main college at the end of the year.  There is a definitive sense of a winding down of place happening here that is both…

  • Cosgrove on Landscape Painting

    One of the consistent purposes of landscape painting has been to present an image of order and proportioned control… there is an inherent conservatism in the landscape idea, in its celebration of property and of an unchanging status quo, in its suppression of tensions between groups in the landscape. (Cosgrove, 1985, p. 58, original emphasis)…

  • Montage of Noel Hefele Paintings

    Questions on Process of Practice

    Curator Joanna O’Donovan asks: Do you paint on site or in a studio? You work on large canvases, what do you like about working on this scale? What do you look for in a site to paint?

  • Disembodied and Engaged Aesthetics

    As a painter in a Master’s course for Arts and Ecology, I am to produce a written work that attempts to synthesize my interests.  My hope is to hash out ideas and get my writing chops up right here on this page.  I had recently read Aesthetics & Nature, and wrote briefly about aesthetics. Aesthetics…

  • Video Interview at the Sites

    Joanna O’Donovan (curator) and I talk about the sites of the paintings featured in the exhibition; The Landscape Thinks Itself In Us.

  • Many Paper Drawings from Noel Hefele's past.

    Installation of Old Drawings

    I was in a show this past september in Philadelphia, called Five Dudes: Artwork and Booze. It was deftly curated by Matt Maloney at 2424 Studios on York St. in Fishtown. The exhibition featured artwork from Ron Johnson, Shane Leddy, Matt Maloney, Michael Xander and myself. The exhibition space was huge. I brought along a…

  • eXchange | AAP’s Centennial Exhibition

    Constance Merriman and I will be exhibiting Dwelling at Exchange: Emerging and Experienced Artists Come Together.  The show is part of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s centennial celebration.  40 artists are participating and collaborating in pairs. The opening reception is this Friday, February 5th at 5:30 – 8pm 937 Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh PA. Unfortunately,  I…

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