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Alastair Noble, assistant professor of art, held an exhibition, “Babel, A Project of Place,” at the Gahlberg Gallery at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill., and has been the subject of a feature article in Sculpture magazine.
The installation originally appeared at the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in Lima, Peru, as “Babel.” It is an interpretation of the short story “Library of Babel,” written by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. Comprised of a series of interlocking hexagonal cubicles, the structure’s walls are made of screen mesh and printed with fragments of poetry in numerous languages. The exhibition ran in the Gahlberg Gallery through Aug. 9.
The feature article, “Alastair Noble: Imagination Made Material,” appeared in the September edition of Sculpture. It takes a look at Noble’s artistic vision and specifically discusses six of his installations which have appeared in galleries at Lafayette and across the country.
An excerpt follows:
His diverse and compelling body of work includes resonant sculptures and installations that invite viewers to engage in a creative collaboration, and in so doing, to undertake their own imaginative journeys into a terrain where material, space, and ideas coincide in objects of stunning visual power. Noble’s works can be seen as an artistic response to architecture and literature, creating a dialogue between two crucial activities by which we attempt to order and tame the world.
Noble has also been commissioned by the New Jersey Transit authority to design craft black steel fencing for the Franklin Avenue station platforms and overpass bridge in Ridgewood, N.J.