Artists Garry Noland and Laura Nugent debut “Hanging Paper,” a site-specific installation of new works at the Olive DeLuce Gallery of Northwest Missouri State University. This exhibition runs from September 23 - October 11, 2024. An essay by Charlotte Street Foundation programs manager and past curatorial fellow Kimberly Kitada accompanies the exhibition. Noland and Nugent are scheduled to speak at the opening reception on Monday, September 23rd at 7 PM. The public is invited to attend.
Garry Noland’s exhibited works are chromatically charged assemblages of a wall-covering scale. Over months in the studio, they are constructed by adhering tinted, hand-shaped forms on a pieced together, sturdy paper substrate. Described as “paper on paper,” each added facet is covered in paint mixed with baking soda which dries to a gritty texture, a distinctly tactile addition. In building surfaces over time, Noland has an openness to both glitches and patterns that develop through extemporization.
Using collected scraps and odd-ends as painting surfaces, Laura Nugent brings her personal studio experience into the gallery with two public-facing, mixed media works. Layering the fragile, non-precious pieces in an improvisational exercise transforms an otherwise irregular backdrop into her main event. “This is a collaborative process of found materials and their histories,” Nugent says. “Overlapping patterns, edges and seams exposed, I am covering surfaces to break a previously self-imposed boundary.”
Garry Noland (b. South Dakota) received a BA (History of Art) from University of Missouri-Kansas City. While living in Independence, MO, his primary studio practice has been in Kansas City and Los Angeles. Noland’s work has been widely exhibited, including at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and John Michael Kohler Art Center. He is a recipient of the Studios Inc Residency Fellowship and Charlotte Street Visual Artists Fellowship. Since 2020, Noland has operated Holsum Gallery (@holsumgallery), an artist-run space in Kansas City Missouri. A complete CV is available at garrynolandart.com.
Laura Nugent (b. Washington DC) studied at SACI (Florence, Italy), New School for Social Research (NYC) and earned her BFA in painting from MICA (Baltimore). Her work has been exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne Museum of Art and 21c Museum Hotel. Laura’s work is in private and corporate collections including The Four Seasons Hotel (Chicago), Pinnacle Bank (Nashville) and Hallmark Inc. After living and working in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, Laura now paints at Holsum Studios in Kansas City. lauranugent.com
The Olive DeLuce Art Gallery is located in the Fine and Performing Arts building of Northwest Missouri State University, 800 University Dr., Maryville, MO. It is open to the public Tuesday and Thursday 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Wednesday 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM and Friday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM.