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Noel Grundwaldt draws upon external cues from the natural surroundings of her rural upstate home. For this series of watercolors, Grunwaldt creates lush renderings of dead fowl. Breathing new enthusiasm into these lifeless creatures, Grunwaldt effortlessly transforms her subject matter into vibrant and intricate works of art. Aesthetically suspended between notions of life and death, Grunwaldt produces generous and resonant paintings that are simultaneously centered upon images of death and decay. The finely drafted details of her paintings serve to convey a fragile and transient quality of physical life. Dynamic relationships fashioned by the artist’s varying techniques make these works at once abstract and detailed, alive and dead.

Noel Grunwaldt was born in Carmel, CA and lives and works in Upstate New York.