{"id":36750,"date":"2020-09-14T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36750"},"modified":"2020-09-13T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T16:51:25","slug":"noelle-phares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/14\/noelle-phares\/","title":{"rendered":"noelle phares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36752\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36752\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/noelle_phares.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"4552\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare for me to begin a post by saying: this artist has a BS in Biochemistry, and an MS in Environmental Science&#8230; but in the case of Denver based artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noellephares.com\/\">Noelle Phares<\/a>, that is exactly right. Suddenly her gorgeous architecture-meets-landscape paintings make even more sense, each of them exploring <em>&#8220;the ever-encroaching presence of humanity into previously pristine open spaces.&#8221; <\/em>Here is Noelle&#8217;s full artist statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;People often remark at seemingly unique marriage of abstract structure and landscape in my work. But in reality, that is what the world looks like these days: the stark break of a distant mountain view by the foreground shapes of the built environments we live in. I choose to paint places that have been altered, for better or for worse, either directly or indirectly by human development. I hope to both raise awareness of the fragile beauty of these places while also highlighting how beautiful and functional manmade design + nature can be if done with symbiosis, instead of nemesis, in mind.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said. Happy Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s rare for me to begin a post by saying: this artist has a BS in Biochemistry, and an MS in Environmental Science&#8230; but in the case of Denver based artist Noelle Phares, that is exactly right. Suddenly her gorgeous architecture-meets-landscape paintings make even more sense, each of them exploring &#8220;the ever-encroaching presence of humanity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,112,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36755,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36750\/revisions\/36755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}