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LA Weekly Q&A
Thrilled to be featured in the LA Weekly - arts editor Shana Nys Dambrot offered a critical assessment of my work and a Q&A that featured this exchange:
L.A. WEEKLY: When did you first know you were an artist?
CHRISTOPHER NOXON: Oh man the capital-A Artist question — that’s a doozy and one I’ve struggled with a lot, especially since I spent most of my life as a capital-W Writer, working as a journalist and writing books while compulsively sketching in journals and eventually getting into illustration. I started painting seriously in midlife so I’d rather just say I make art, which vibes with my two core beliefs that 1) identity is a trap, and 2) verbs over nouns.
The timing is terrific, with my landscape “Awha’y 2” appearing in a show opening Dec 10 at Gallery 825 on La Cienega curated by MoCA curator Rebecca Lowery. This is my first time showing in my old stomping grounds - excited to bring my “wild idyl” art to the big city!
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