Noah Emhurt: July 2025
Noah Emhurt is a painter whose work merges an unforgotten, youthful energy with years of experience, blending abstract and figurative elements into a style that is both raw and somewhat unapologetic. Raised in a small city, his earliest canvases were bedroom walls (where he constantly drew) and the city streets (where he discreetly spray-painted), shaped by a steady diet of comic books, graffiti, and skateboard art.
After earning his BFA, he moved to major cities, including Tokyo, where he pulls from the culture and fast pace of these environments. Currently, he resides in Pittsburgh where he moved to in order to push his work into a new direction and create a novel body of work. Mission accomplished. His paintings, executed on large canvases in oil and acrylic, often combine his childhood influences, his education in the arts, and the fast pace of urban lifestyle in order to create a unique style all his own.
His work has been showcased in a range of gallery exhibitions across the U.S. and featured in multiple film and television productions.
Collected words, books, and personal writings form the physical and philosophical foundation for my work as a text and textile based conceptual artist. I collect words to combine with abandoned materials. As words are subjected to heightened scrutiny and censorship, I preserve language and present text in new and unexpected ceremonial forms. Our use and throwaway society has boxed our goods and people into anticipated roles with limited lifespans of usefulness. We do not fix or repurpose the items that no longer work the way they were originally intended. We trivialize people who fill undervalued traditional societal functions as well as people who do not fit into accepted roles. My work releases the latent and unexpected possibilities of material and language, while altering perceived worth, adjusting stereotypical storylines, and calling attention to societal issues.
Current Exhibition:
Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival’s Annual Juried Visual Art Exhibition
through August 3, 2025
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
SPACE Gallery
812 Liberty Ave.
Pittsburgh PA 15222
