"Stylistically, I'd probably be described as an illustrator, yet I try to make the image work without losing the revealing characteristics of the medium," Albert Noyer says about his work. "Since a great deal of my subject matter runs the danger of a picturesque solution, exploring the medium is essential to balance that tendency toward tightness which many illustrators have."
The reviewer of one of his New Mexico shows wrote, "Noyer dismisses the quaintly attractive visual statement of a pretty picture to find an unexpected and stronger beauty. He lets the watery colors describe dissolving adobe, tumbling stone walls and slanting timbers. Abandoned automobiles and shacks stand out boldly against encroaching wild grasses, soaring mesas and hard-edged arroyo shapes."
Noyer describes his woodcut prints: "Woodcut is a stronger medium than transparent water-based techniques - bold imagery, dark oily inks and the physical effort of cutting the block. That first proof is always exciting and somewhat unpredictabletransferring the grain and knots of old planks to paper and recognizing the characteristics of the cutting tools. It's a nice counterpoint to the elusiveness of watercolor."
After receiving a BFA degree from Wayne University, Detroit, Michigan, Noyer worked as a commercial artist in Detroit studios, then earned teacher certification and master's degrees in art education and teaching humanities. While with the Detroit Public Schools, 1958-86, he taught art at the technical high school and vocational levels, evening art history classes at a private college, and participated in Michigan art exhibits and Arwin Gallery shows.
Since moving to New Mexico, in 1986, with his wife Jennifer, he has continuously shown in art galleries and won awards in local exhibitions. He is a Signature Member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society, and belongs to the Manzano Mountain Arts Council and New Mexico Veterans Art. A member of SouthWest Writers, he is the author of three historical fiction novels, The Cybelene Conspiracy (2005), The Secundus Papyrus (2003) and The Saint's Day Deaths (2000).
Of his writing, Noyer says, "I chose the fifth century in which to set my novels because, over the last forty years, that formerly discounted era was re-evaluated and seen to be critical in creating religious and political institutions that have survived into our modem times."
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