Ilse Schreiber Noll's Page

Ilse Schreiber Noll, born in Germany immigrated to the United States.
She received her Masters in Fine Art at Purchase College, SUNY, NY in 1989, with concentration on
painting, printmaking (woodcut) and the Art of the Book.
Her paintings, books and prints depict current and past social, political and environmental issues, with main focus on the destruction caused by war.
She participated in several major political movements among them Artist Call, Art Against Apartheid, Artist’s against the Death Penalty, in efforts to close Indian Point and in several exhibits against war.
Most recently she was a participant in Mark di Suvero’s “Peace Tower Project” shown at the Whitney Biennial 2006 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. NY.

Her political paintings and installations were recently exhibited at The Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY in 2007 and in The Puffin Room, New York, NY, 2008.

In collaboration with contemporary poets she produced Limited Edition Artist books. Among the poets and musicians she has worked with are:
Joseph Brodsky, Galway Kinnell, Octavio Paz, John Cage, Dennis Brutus, Nathaniel Tarn and Robert Kelly.
In collaboration with Eric Bentley, critic, playwright and translator, she did extensive graphic work (woodcuts) mainly for plays by German playwrights such as Bertolt Brecht and Frank Wedekind. Together they produced ten small booklets.
A large body of her work (woodcuts), inspired by the work of Bertolt Brecht, was exhibited in Germany: In Augsburg (2004), Buckow (2005), Berlin (2006) and
Bochum (2007) and reviewed in the German magazine Graphische Kunst,
(Internationales Zeitschrift fuer Buchkunst und Graphik), Heft2/2008.

2009 Puffin Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Teanek, NJ

Presently she lives and works in Westchester, NY and in Berlin, Germany.
Website: www.ilseschreibernoll.com