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Artworks by students in two courses taught by Alastair Noble, assistant professor of art, are on display in downtown Easton at Quadrant Book Mart and at the Williams Center for the Arts.
“Fish Impressions,” on view through May 23 at the Quadrant, 20 North Third Street, celebrates Easton’s annual Shad Fishing Tournament. It is a collection of collographs, or prints made from low-relief collages, by 12 students in Noble’s Principles of Studio Art course. Essentially, Noble explains, each print is a thin collage of textured materials that are mounted on a board, inked, and printed through an etching press. Often, the prints are heavily embossed because of the textured materials.
“We were given boards and various materials to make the fish and the environment around them,” says Jennifer Stone of Newtown, Pa., a sophomore double majoring in art and economics & business. “Some materials we used were straws, potato sack material, wire mesh, yarn, and cotton. We glued these pieces onto the board before putting ink on them.”
Inna Korkko, a first-year student from Konstancin-Jezioma, Poland, drew motivation for her print from a friend’s tattoo, which features a fish image used by the popular band Sublime.
On display through the end of the term on the Williams Center lawn is a grouping of limestone sculptures by a dozen students in Noble’s Intermediate Sculpture course. They produced the sculptures from their own designs using hammers and chisels only, drawing inspiration from ancient sculptures.
“The students came up with their own designs, but for inspiration, they were shown slides of ancient Neolithic standing stone sites in England and Scotland which have cup and ring marks carved into them,” Noble says. “Their images also had to relate to nature.”
Noble, who joined the faculty last fall, contributed an aluminum sculpture, “Observatory for Cup and Ring Marks,” to the exhibit.
Noble has displayed his sculptures and other works in solo exhibitions at Robert Pardo Gallery, N.Y.; Center for Visual Arts Gallery at Brookdale College, N.J.; View Gallery, N.J.; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Va.; Nerlino Gallery, N.Y.; Stux Gallery, N.Y.; and Marian Goodman Gallery, N.Y., among other venues. His work has been featured in dozens of group exhibitions, including a show last year at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.
Noble has written reviews over the past several years for Sculpture and has produced other published articles as well, including a piece in Journal of Architecture.
He was visiting professor of sculpture at Cornell University, and has also taught at Cedar Crest College, and Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, N.J., among others. He holds a master of fine arts degree from Rutgers University and a bachelor of arts from Hull College of Art, England.