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Noah Saterstrom

Statement

NOW WE'LL DECIDE WHO COMES FROM WHERE

The title, "Now We'll Decide Who Comes From Where," is a phrase that marks the desire to trace. To trace the lineage of something, or someone, or some dynamic in order to make sense of it. To give value by assigning a context.

While the act of tracing itself is invisible, what this act reveals is often clear. The diptych form is helpful for dealing with tenuous relationships. Putting two images side by side, by the fact of proximity alone, allows these images to bloom connective possibilities. The process of making these paintings was like watching them learn how to relate and respond to one another, trace their connections.

Photographs were important to this work. Some of the sources were my ancestors, famous artists, former slaves, Mississippi landscapes, and psychic mediums. Each painting attempts a return to, or of, a photographic reference, though how any one painting relates to another is a matter of resonance rather than logic.

(The title was loaned to this show by poet Kate Greenstreet.)

About the Artist

Raised in Mississippi and educated at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Noah Saterstrom works as a visual artist and independent curator. His paintings, drawings, and print installations have been shown nationally and internationally, most recently in Brooklyn, NY, New Orleans, LA and Glasgow, Scotland. He works with writers on text/image collaborations, and is the founder and curator of the on-line curatorial quarterly, Trickhouse. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 - "Now We'll Decide Who Comes From Where", Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009 - "Bunny Magic", Ugly Duckling Press, 6x6 Journal, Shelton Walsmith Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2009 - "Lost & Found, I Love You", Central School Project, Bisbee, AZ
2007 - "Offertory", Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2006 - "Memory [Memory]", installation, Lodging House Mission, Glasgow, Scotland
2006 - "Memory Continued", installation, Warrington, England
2006 - "Katrina Projects Presents: Hospitality State Drawings", Blue Door Series, Raleigh, North Carolina
2005 - Portfolio Gallery, Yorkshire, England
2004 - "New Work", Artbank, Glasgow, Scotland
2003 - "Excavations on a Good Day", Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

Group Exhibitions

2009 - Works on Paper Invitational, Hilo, HI
2008 - Pacific States Biennial Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
2008 - "Home is Where the ________ Is", Contemporary Arts Exchange, Macon, GA
2008 - "Home is Where the ________ Is", Southern Humanities Council, Knoxville, TN
2008 - Bull City Arts Collaborative Invitational Group Show, Durham, North Carolina
2006 - "Artists of Faith", Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 - "Lenten Show", Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 - "FreshArt", Islington Business Centre, London
2003 - Hendersonville Arts Center, North Carolina
2003 - Holden Gallery, Swannanoa, North Carolina
2003 - Black Mountain Center for the Arts, North Carolina
2001 - Featured Artists, Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2001 - "Diplomatic Immunity", Multi-media group exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York, New York
2001 - Waterbug Agency, Food Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2001 - Glasgow MFA, Tramway Gallery, Scotland
2001 - Glasgow ArtFair, George Square, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 - Various group and solo exhibitions at Oxford, Natchez, and Tupelo, Mississippi

Honors and Awards

2005 - Visual Arts Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Amherst, Virginia
2005 - Public Artworks Project Grant, Arts and Business, Edinburgh, Scotland
2005 - Artist-in-Residence, Morris and Spottiswood, Glasgow, Scotland
2004 - Head Judge, South Carolina State Fair Art Competition
2003 - Guest tutor, MFA and Painting Department, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2001 - Isle of Arran Distilleries Graduate Student Fellowship
2000 - Artist-in-Residence for HRH Prince of Wales, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland

Publications

Amateur Art, Denver Quarterly, Spring 2007. Essay
Figures for a Darkroom Voice, Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007. Collaborative book with Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Noah Eli Gordon
Memory, Tarpaulin Sky, Fall 2006. Collaboration with Tama Baldwin
Sand People, Tarpaulin Sky, Spring 2006. Photographic installation
Hollywood Kids, Sleeping Fish, Spring 2005. Collaboration with Selah Saterstrom
BBC Radio Scotland, 2003. The Arts Program
The Scotsman Newspaper, 2001.
OxfordTown, 1998.

Teaching & Lectures

2003-2006 - Art Faculty, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina
2005-2006 - Gallery Director, Holden Gallery, Warren Wilson College
2006 - Visiting Instructor, Artist-in-Residence, The Mississippi Arts Colony, Utica, Mississippi
2006 - AP Reader/Consultant, College Board, College of New Jersey
2005 - Visiting Instructor, Artist-in-Residence, The Mississippi Arts Colony, Utica, Mississippi
2005 - AP Reader/Consultant, College Board, College of New Jersey
2003 - Guest Tutor, MFA and Painting Department, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2003 - Arts Instructor, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina

Education

2001 MFA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1998 BFA University of Mississippi, Oxford