Meet figurative painter Brad Noble during his gallery talk at the Creamery Arts Center, 411 N. Sherman Parkway on Sunday, May 20 5-7 p.m. You’ll be amazed by his huge floor-to-ceiling sized portraits, and that he can achieve the same incredible results using traditional oil paints OR by drawing and painting directly on his iPad. This event is free and open to the public.
His First Night opening at the Creamery Arts Center was a hit. We were transfixed by his iPad demonstrations. Noble sometimes draws and paints directly on his iPad using apps that simulate natural art media. He can do one portrait in a couple hours, sometimes completing two or three iPad paintings in a day. Each brushstroke of his iPad app is recorded, so he’s able to play back the painting process in condensed time, giving audiences the incredible experience of watching a masterpiece blossom on the screen.
Surrounded in the Creamery Exhibition Hall by Noble’s huge painted canvas portraits, the exhibition is reminder that Noble’s digital work is good because he is a highly trained painter using traditional media.
With his current series of “vapor faces,” Noble hopes to create a state of ambiguity in the viewer’s mind and a place where the viewer can begin to fill in the gaps in a dreamlike state.
“Ideally, I take my viewer through a series of discoveries that leave them questioning their original assumptions…I create as I paint, with an improvisational style,” says Noble. “That spontaneity to me keeps it fresh.”
Noble has achieved national recognition through exhibitions in galleries from Soho to the west coast. Brad received his BFA from the Art Center in Pasadena in 1996 and has work permanently on exhibit at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. His artworks has recently been acquired by the Seven Bridges Foundation, Tom Waits, and Maverick Records founder Freddy Demann.
