Noah Landfield

Art Brokerage: Noah Landfield American Artist: b. 1979. Noah Landfield was born and raised in New York City, in a Tribeca that was still full of commercial lofts and artists' residences, rather than brimming with expensive boutiques and families out with strollers. This was fertile soil for a budding artist. Landfield, a son and grandson of painters, studied painting in the City, as well, and his work reflects the often volatile nature of metropolitan life. This reflection of volatility, seen particularly in the abstract foundational cloudbursts which fill his canvases, derives also from his longtime fascination with volcanic activity. His impressionistic overlays of metropolitan architectural renderings are inspired by his visits to Japan and his reaction to the compact urban environment of Tokyo, as well as to Rome and Florence, where the warmth of color and light and the juxtaposition of many centuries of architecture manifest themselves in his canvases depicting those locales. Landfield's canvases are redolent of the tension between manmade urban structures and the forces of nature and also expressive of the way they manage to coexist. His execution of these ghostly images combines fine detail with broad sweeps of near abstraction in vibrant color. Listings wanted.