The world in drawings
Caraquet-based artist Noah Poirier's drawing style can be best described as spirited. By drawing just a few strokes, the artist presents us with characters who could easily exist in a virtual world, and who seem to enter into an intimate relationship with colour as soon as they are brought into the world on paper or canvas.
The artist works with drawing, painting and drawing on electronic tablets. He also hopes to explore sculpture in the near future.
Close to the world of comics, the artists sometimes highly colourful characters and fantastic bestiaries seem to come straight out of a free-living futuristic world. The artist's works don't reveal themselves immediately, but are to be discovered gradually, for beneath the beauty of the line and the colours brought to light by the artist, it's also human nature in all its states that is presented.
Artist Noah Poirier seems to be on a quest for the ultimate drawing, which is why his artistic evolution should be followed in the years to come.
To be discovered at this year's FAVA as part of the The world in drawing project, presented in partnership with Uni coopération financière.
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Noah Poirier
Noah Poirier is a Canadian-born professional illustrator and painter currently living in Caraquet, New Brunswick. He graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA) in 2019 with a BFA in illustration. In addition to his profession in illustration and fine art, he also works as a character and concept artist, as well as a graphic designer. He prefers to paint with mixed media on wood. He has developed a method that is very durable, while allowing a great deal of flexibility and experimentation.
"We are lonely robots yearning to be seen. We are mind and matter, reason and passion, hideous and beautiful, insignificant and yet so very special. The original joke - We are everything at once and the empty spaces in between - more pattern than person. There's nowhere to stand and nowhere to arrive. I dare to embrace the absolute absurdity of it all and laugh at the punchline. With brutal honesty and tender rascality, let's be sincere without being too serious. My mind is a neurotic computer powered by slimy circuits, carried by mechanized flesh. What strange machines we are to carry such a bountiful emptiness despite the inherent limitations of our hardware. I will be the bridge for all my lonely robots. You're not alone. I see you."