Current Exhibition On Display Until December 6, 2025

“Beauty As Rebellion”

Featuring Works by R. Scott Colglazier

Curated by Felix Etienne-Edouard Pfeifle

SAVE THE DATE

Artist Talk & Closing Reception

Saturday, December 6, 2025, 3pm-6pm

Free & Open to the Public

Art of Noize is pleased to announce our new exhibit, Beauty as Rebellion, featuring work by R. Scott Colglazier on display at the gallery until December 6, 2025. Gallery hours Thursday - Saturday, 12pm-6pm.

Exhibition Statement

“We are living in a lean time. A difficult time. Many of us are dismayed with what we see happening in our country and fear for the future of our democracy. Additionally, what we know is that in our daily lives “shit” happens. It happens to us in devastatingly personal ways, like when we lose our job or are forced to begin chemotherapy, or in annoyingly common ways, like trying to negotiate a new cell phone plan. I find myself turning repeatedly to art to recover the fragments of my humanity. Art nurtures the deepest me within me and the deepest you within you. Art makes us think and feel. It connects us to something that is at once deeply within us, while at the same time moving us toward something bigger than ourselves. Abstract work, on the other hand, is an attempt to both deconstruct the literal world, while at the same time creating a new world of meaning that is expansive and amorphous. My paintings are simple. Within these paintings are feelings of grief, loss and pain. But there is also hope and light, and love of course, always love. I often feel despair as I look upon our fractured world. But then I look at the colors of these works, or I contemplate the sinewy lines that move across the canvas like painterly thoughts, painterly feelings, or I see dots of paint that constellate into a small universe upon the canvas, a universe that becomes an extraordinary room with a cosmic view, I begin to feel my humanity come back to life. It’s the power of art. The power of beauty.” -R. Scott Colglazier