If Memory Serves
By Noah Post
This series of drawings and paintings was made between March 2020 and March 2021. My time was split evenly between the small New England town that I grew up in and my home of the last 16 years, New York City. In the spirit of map-making, these works begin as intuitive collages of passageways, rivers, solitary paths and lines of mass transit. The structural basis of the work emphasizes the gestural humanistic element that is buried within these compositions. While my work is not literally figural, the human form is fully present. This combination of organic shapes and hard lines alludes to the body. Each painting may be viewed as an intimate lattice of hipbones, necklines, and distinct postures of those that I keep closest to my heart and home.
Linear abstraction has long been the mainstay of my practice. I never aim to create a realistic space or narrative picture, though I am startled when my paintings evoke specific and intimate memories. In this way my work functions as an abstract display of my unconscious. The lines cite the balance between a nonrepresentational aesthetic and the multi-layered personal landscape lying beneath the surface. A painting is finished when I find a compromise between visual structure and the unruly noise of the unconscious.
About the Artist
Noah Post
Simon Russell is a photographer, an avid carpenter and an explorer of moments in time. He is always creating through his lens or with his hands. His passion for photography is limitless in subject matter -A beautiful detail, a weathered face with a storied soul -nature from the far reaches of Morocco to the classical bridges and walkways of New York City. Simon has been a photographer at Getty Images since 2005 . He has collaborated with renowned travel publisher Fodors on three travel guides : Escape to Morocco, Escape to Ireland and Escape to New Zealand. Simon’s intrigue into the human condition drives his work. In 2011, he founded a soccer program and yearly competition for kids in Haiti called “Soccer Recycle." This collaboration continues today. His images have appeared in short documentaries for both commercial and not for profit clients including (Novo Nordisk/Ozempic), Triform Camphill Community, a home for young adults with developmental disabilities, and most recently in the short documentary Adopt-A-Nurse, which follows a young frontline nurse during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Long Island, New York.