Lisa Armstrong Noble (American, b.1973, Winnipeg, Canada) began her formal artistic training at the Alberta College of Art & Design in 1997. She moved to the United States in 1998 to complete her BFA at the Corcoran College of Art & Design in Washington, D.C. During each year of study Noble’s efforts were recognized with the Dean’s Merit and Corcoran Scholarships. In 2020, Noble received a Wherewithal Recovery Grant from Washington Project for The Arts, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. 

Noble’s first exposure to art occurred at the age of four, while during a field trip with her Kindergarten class to the Winnipeg Art Gallery she saw a painting by British artist Brigette Riley. Riley’s distinctive Op Art style of black and white form and the disorienting effects of her canvases instantly struck a chord with Noble, who was at once profoundly impacted by art’s innate power to dissolve the veneer of the everyday.

​Noble’s work is included in many private collections across the U.S. She has been recognized by The Washington Post, The Washington CityPaper, The New York Times, Miami New Times, D.C. Pulse Magazine, and Studio Visit Magazine. Noble was named one of Washington’s ‘25 Most Beautiful People’ by Washingtonian Magazine.

Artist’s Statement

In my recent ink and oil works on canvas, I revisit my roots in drawing by underscoring the importance of line as the framework and foundation for my motivations behind art making.

I look to painters like Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954) to explore my natural tendencies toward insistent flatness, tilted perspective, self-referential imagery, and an increasingly transitional approach to subject matter. The reductive process of Sgraffito brings a patterned, decorative, and gendered sensibility to my paintings.

Observing antiquity is an important aspect of my process. I hold in high regard those objects made by artists and makers who lived before me, as they reside static and eternal in museums and other sites. Through contemplation and sketching of these sculpted forms and symbolic patterns, I reveal the ritual of mark making. I seek to imbue my own work with a similar underlying harmony.

Gallery & Membership Affiliations

First Street Gallery, New York, NY (2022–present)
www.firststreetgallery.org

The Living Room - NYC, New York, NY (2023–present)
www.livingroom-nyc.com

The Painting Center, New York, NY (2021–2023)
www.thepaintingcenter.org