painting art exhibition

Social Cohension During Epidemic

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Noah Scalin
Noah Scalin

brief

Noah Scalin is an American painter and artist. He is famous for using a large number of everyday items as materials to create collages. By observing his artworks, the viewers can be able to recontextualize the solified concepts of their daily things and to rethink the meaning of the objects.

influence

Noah Scalin is famous for his art project weblog Skull-A-Day. It's a Internet based interactive artwork that Scalin and other participants online make and post the shape of the skull made by different mateirals on the website. Noah Scalin was invented to the Martha Stewart show to exhibit this work as well.

art philosophy

LEGO portrait
Wildfire
The painting is made by colorful stickers. There are two people sitting on the street in this painting.
of America: Huddled Masses (series)

Noah Scalin’s artworks focus on creating the contrast between forms and symbols. There is a Taoist balance involved in his creative process. Through destroy and reshape the original attributes of the objects, Scalin is able to give new meanings to the short lifespan products in our current society.

artwork

Noah Scalin with his artwork supporting by Old Navy The twisty shape of the artwork

This huge painting was finished during the worst period of the epidemic. It’s made up of a large number of clothes from Old Navy with different colors. Noah scalin considered the clothes as his pigments and arranged them following his sketch. The final work is actually a twisty portraiture. In order to observe the correct ratio of the work, viewer need to watch it at the certain position with certain angle.

Noah Scalin is working on the artwork.
Noah Scalin is doing his artwork

Process

Hundreds of clothes are used to create this huge work. Noah Scalin used the referential sketch to adjsut the position of those clothes. In this epidemic period, he finished all the work only by himself and there is only one of his colleagues stay with him in charge of video recording.

Concept

Noah Scalin believes through rearragne daily objects into a new artwork can break the inherent conceptual limitations and give them new meanings. During the epidemic, lots of families are in financial distress and even unable to purchase new clothing. Through regrouping these clothes to a huge picture in which a mother and her two kids smilling, Noah Scalin is able to call for the public attention to the suffering families.

All the clothes in the artwork will be used for donation.

career timeline

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions