Noah Karapana-giotidis
“I am a painter working with a balance of abstract and loosely figurative modalities. I am guided by my intuition as well as a strong interest in color theory and the way composition, scale and color add up to create a unique sensory experience. My work relies on intense color relationships inspired by fauvist sensibilities as well as the light contrast color wheel. I enjoy alternating between visually vibrating boundaries of starkly contrasting, high-saturation colors, and subtle shifts between chromatic grays. My work grapples with themes drawn from my own experiences with migration, gendered embodiment, sense of self and relations between self and other, intimacy, anger, and loneliness.These themes often settle into abstracted mental landscapes, like Untitled (Our First Fight), that attempt to visually distill a particular instance in my mind into a composition of emotions, thoughts, and sensations, as well as the interactions between all of these elements. My artistic drive is replenished through the overwhelming feeling of serenity and possibility I get when I am facing a beautiful painting. Artists who inspire me include Jessica Anne Schwartz, Nicole Eisenman, and Amy Sillman. My art historical influences include the directness and process-oriented attitude of abstract expressionism and neo expressionism, the brushwork of impressionism and pointillism, and the loose figuration of surrealism.”
