Based between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, this 24-year-old painter creates psychedelic, color-driven works rooted in intuition, perception, and a close study of film. Drawing inspiration from looking at emotion and memory through cinematic structure and film theory. Because of this, Noah feels as though each brushstroke is an indexical trace and exists to survive himself and point to his existence —the paintings unfold over time through an accumulative, self-aware process. Each work is built slowly through revision, experimentation, and attention to how images construct meaning. Color operates as both subject and structure, forming immersive visual spaces that reference not only inner states and sensory intensity, but also the act of their own making. Every finished painting is both an individual new work and is also referential to the ongoing archive of the body of work. Rather than presenting a fixed illusion, the paintings are intended to point back to their own construction—inviting viewers to notice process, material, and duration, and to experience color as something active, unstable, and alive.

Noah K. Varsalona was born in Marietta, Georgia, in 2001. He pursued a degree in fine arts at Andrew College and received his Associate of Arts in 2022. In 2023, he enrolled at Tulane University, where he continued his art education and expanded his knowledge by adding a second major, Cinema Studies. Noah Graduates in May 2026 with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Cinema Studies.

While working with Professor Chris Johnson I have been able to contribute on several murals throughout South West Georgia. I even got the chance to paint my own fence mural at Cuthbert's Arts 'Round the Square festival. There are links to more information in the text under the photos included below.