Artist Statement

Through abstracted symbols (sagging intestinal soft sculptures, yonic passageways, bright red colors) I build large-scale, stuffed (or impregnated) quasi-paintings meant to evoke a childlike sense of vulnerability. Fluid, red installations are made to cling to and move with the viewer, or create a sensation of being inside the body.

I work between soft sculpture, painting, and installation to metabolize and critically examine inherited ideas of authority. Growing up in a conservative religious environment, I developed a keen sense of self-censure as a form of personal protection. My work reflects on this embodied censorship through the use of a personal, cryptic visual system adjacent to familiar religious iconography. 

I am interested in challenging the authoritative history of painting in parallel with my experience of being raised with beliefs that denied subjective or bodily autonomy. Viewing both art and my past through a feminist lens, I work to bring an intuitive and sensuous attention to dismantling internalized forms of authority, patriarchy, and intolerance.  

Artist Bio

Noelle is a 2026 MFA graduate from Boston University, holds a BA from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, and is a Spring 2026 Teaching Assistant at BU for the Senior Sculpture Studio. Residencies have included the 2025 Chautauqua Visual Arts 6 Week Residency from the Chautauqua Institution, NY.