NOEL HENNELLY

I make constructions using wood, metal, inkjet prints, paint, and steel fasteners. The pieces incorporate plywood elements cut with a scroll saw and connectors. Other pieces incorporate inkjet prints mounted on wood, with imagery drawn from original and collected photographic sources, ranging from details drawn from classical sculpture, collected from NASA images, and items drawn from tool catalogs. Plastic and found objects are added as well. Steel and aluminum hardware features as both support and embellishment. The pieces are both freestanding and wall mounted, creating a high relief. There are three categories of interest in my practice. Celestial objects; Votives; Culture as both nature and machine. Votives represent Vessels for containing spiritual forces the bolts and washers each representing an oath of protection. Poetic references draw the attention away from the formal into ambiguity.

 

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute, BFA, 1980
City University of New York, Coursework in Biology and Earth Science, 2001
Yale University, Yale School of Art, MDiv Religion and the Arts, Coursework in Sculpture, Yale School of Art, 2010

Lives and works in New York NY, and Yonkers NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 – Peep Space, Tarrytown NY
2019 – Phillipse Manor State Historic Site, Yonkers NY
2012 – Mosnart, Visiting Artist Program, Chicago, IL
2006 – Visual Arts Project at SMV NY NY
1984 – Limbo Gallery, NY
1983 – Piezo Electric Gallery, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 – I Sing the Body Electric, Jane’s Room, NY NY
2023 – Chaos Theory, Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY
2023 –  You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY
2022 – Lapdogs of War, Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY2021 – Perfect Day, Drugs and Art, White Box, NY, NY
2021 – Yonkers Arts Project Space, Yonkers, NY
2019 – Beezelbub’s Tales, Empty Circle, Brooklyn, NY
2018 – Warburton Gallery, Yonkers, NY
2017 – Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY
2017 – Kunstraum, Summer Invitational, Brooklyn, NY
2017 – Counterpointe, Actors Equity Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
2015 – Outlet Gallery, Annual Invitational, Brooklyn, NY
2014 – Riverfront Gallery, Yonkers, NY
2008 – Green Gallery, Yale, New Haven
1997 – A Gathering of the Tribes, NY NY

Collaborative Performance: (2017, 2022) Norte Maar, Counterpointe 5, Counterpointe 9,
Residencies: Mosnart, Chicago, 2009; Mudhouse Art, 2023

Collections: JP Morgan Chase