NOEL HENNELLY

Born, Queens, NY, 1957. After earning her BFA from Pratt Institute, exhibited in solo and group shows in the New York area and has worked as a typographer, graphic designer, and has pursued interests in science and religion. Earned a Master of Divinity at Yale University, while attending classes in sculpture at the Yale School of Art. My work represents votives, and topical symbols based on natural and manufactured forms. It combines ready-made elements with constructed parts, largely in wood and metal as well as digital images. I am interested in the crossover between nature and the machine and hybridization that offers a vision of a ecosystem and connectedness. I see form as an extension of how an organism, or tool functions. I am also interested in narratives, and references to mythology as an expression of the unknowable, citing the way astronomers name celestial bodies after mythological references, acting as a shorthand for the ineffable.

 

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

2021 – 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 at Mosnart, Chicago, 2009. Represented in the JP Morgan Chase Collection.