Noelle Whitaker (b.1998) is a Found Object Artist from Phoenix, Arizona, now living and working in Seattle, Washington. 

Whitaker marries printmaking and sculpture techniques to build brute works, translating generational patois.

Noelle Whitaker she/her (b.1998) is a Found Object Artist from Phoenix, Arizona. Whitaker received her BFA in Printmaking at Arizona State University in 2020 with a focus in stone lithography. Whitaker now lives and works in Seattle, Washington. Both an artist and a curator, Whitaker upholds a DIY ethos in venue and commitment to elevating outsider artists of the Southwest and Northern Pacific. Whitaker maintains a constructivist approach to materials in her creative practice, rendering her uninterested in transforming an object from its original form. Instead, Whitaker prefers to employ objects and made images as conceptual tools, building relationships between objects, images, and text. This mixed media approach nurtures a "widely seen but rarely understood" exploration of material. Digital cues, boldface text, made images, found matter, and mirrors gain new meaning in Whitaker's world.

Through the meticulous combination of image and matrix, printmaking and sculpture techniques explore heartbreak, loss, value, flex and internet culture, decay, and the outsider mentality. This exploration results in brute works that speak to their generation's experience in a rapidly shifting world.

Whitaker debuted in 2024, holding two solo exhibitions, "Pile Up" at Georgetown Steamplant and "Seen" at Slip Gallery, Belltown. Whitaker’s most recent project, “Reins,” took the form of a 12-person group show at Georgetown Steamplant, which served as a cross-cultural exchange between artists of the western United States.

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