A R T I S TS T A T E M E N T

Zannah Noe is fine artist working in mix media. As a formally trained photographer and painter she is using Instagram and working with new technology within social media. Inspired by her photos she retranslates the work into paintings. Her paintings become lush color abstract backgrounds with collaged elements from her photos and observations of a place or person.

Currently she is working on a series called American Bones that will be a three-year project of traveling the states for five months exploring the past and present deep cultural threads of America. The paintings and photographs will explore our nation’s regionalism and its distinct cultural roots. She is interested in what creates these distinctions and to see how they contribute to the common thread that is Americanism - Retranslating Americana.

Noe will have the first American Bones photography exhibit in September 2012 at her space Velcrow Studios in San Francisco. She will create The American Bones Photo Book of her travels and it will be available the following year. In 2013, she will be working in New Mexico to work out the themes she photographed and retranslate them into book form and onto canvas, the second phase of The American Bones Series.

She is originally from Concord Massachusetts but resides in San Francisco, California. She studied photography under Carrie Mae Weems at Hampshire College and art at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Her work is widely collected and she runs her own art space in San Francisco, Velcrow Studios. Currently her work can be seen in San Francisco, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, and Maine.

S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S

2013
SEEDS. A Collected Voice, Downtown Contempory Gallery, ABQ, NM
Amusement Architecture, Dream Inn, Joive D Vivre Hotel, Santa Cruz, CA

2012
American Bones PHOTOS + SOUVENIRS, Velcrow Studios - SF, CA
Masquerade show, ARC Gallery - SF, CA
Group Show, Red Boot Gallery at the Range - NM
AIR Show, Gathering Artists Gallery, Corrales - NM
Tres Amigas, Differing Realities, Red Boot Gallery at the Range - NM

2011          
Abstract Love, Velcrow Studios - San Francisco - CA
Amusement Architecture, The Range Gallery - NM
Springboard & Bones, Velcrow Studios - SF, CA

2010           
Opening Night, Velcrow Studios - SF, CA
Hospitality House Benefit Auction, Andrea Schwartz Gallery - SF, CA
Group Show, Barber Lounge - SF, CA

2009            
Little Boxes, Femina Potens Gallery - SF, CA

2008            
Tiny Show, Studio Gallery - SF, CA
Off The Point,  Hayes Valley Market Gallery - SF , CA
Artspan’s Exhibition, SOMArts Gallery - SF , CA

2007           
Hunters Point Shipyard Show. Hayes Valley Market Gallery - SF, CA
Delicious Show, Studio Gallery - SF, CA
Artspan’s Exhibition, SOMArts Gallery - SF, CA
Artist Xchange Gallery - SF, CA

2006           
Tiny Show, Studio Gallery - SF, CA
Cityscapes Embarcadero Conference Center, - SF, CA
Artspan’s Exhibition, SOMArts Gallery - SF, CA
Vallejo's Artist Guild Show - Vallejo, CA


E D U C A T I O N

2009 – 2010            Private study under CCA Instructor, Doug Schneider - SF, CA
1995 – 1997            City College of San Francisco, Web and Graphic Design, -  SF, CA
1986 – 1990            University of Massachusetts, BFA  - Amherst, MA
1987 – 1989            Hampshire College, Photography minor  - Hadley, MA

R E S I D E N C I E S | A W A R D S | G R A N T S

2012            Gathering Artists Residency Program.Two month AIR, Corrales, NM
2011             ArtSpan Exhibition. Juror’s Award, SF, CA
2008            Shipyard Trust for the Arts. Grant, SF, CA
2007            Shipyard Trust for the Arts, Grant, SF, CA
2006            Vallejo Arts Guild, Award First place Vallejo,CA


G A LLE R Y R E P R E S EN T A T I O N

Zonal Interiors, San Francisco, California
Velcrow Studios, San Francisco, California
Collage Gallery , San Francisco, California
Gathering Artists Gallery, Corrales, New Mexico.
Gold / Smith Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
Enclave, Concord, Massachusetts