Mashiak
Noah Mashiak
Noah Mashiak (b. 1999) is an American artist currently living in London.
He holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently pursuing his MA at the Royal College of Art. Alongside his painting practice, he maintains an interest in art education, and has previously worked as a senior instructor at a community-oriented non-profit arts centre in Massachusetts.
His work consists of process-oriented abstract paintings defined by their accumulative layers. Through intensive linework and obfuscated collage, images both familiar yet unrecognisable arise. Merging ruminations on personal experience with imagery of an unfamiliar world creates ambiguous scenes removed from their original context. These subjects cater to the free-associative nature of the mind while exploring evolving imagery related to the natural world, biomorphism, and the entheogenic experience.