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Noah Demchuk

Every piece chosen informs another.
Photography, illustration, experimentation.
A tether of time connects them all.
Scroll and rewind.
The cycle begins…

WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS
WELCOME TO THE SELECTED WORKS

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(2020)

Young mind with eager hands moving in the dark.
Observe and learn…

A brightly coloured portrait of a young person with striking ears and curly hair. The figures face is painted with blues and yellows, contrasted against the pink background. A bolt of light pink divides the canvas in the background.
A colourful portrait of figure with an extended neck. The figure is painted with greens and yellows and greys. The figure is bald on the top of their head and has luxurious, long hair that hangs past their ears.
A vampire headshot painted with various tones of red against a yellow background.

Untitled digital sketches.

A set of four wheel thrown tea mugs with a saucer. The mugs themselves are made out of a mottled clay with a deep umber band around their midsection. Each mug is slightly different and the mug at the very back of the image contains a small rubber tree (Ficus Elastica) (Francesca).

“Francesca and Her Pots”

Search

(2021)

Conviction wavers. A large and unsympathetic world.
Gazing inward begins…

A semi abstract mixed media piece. There appears to be multiple fish heads overlapping in the bottom proper left corner of the piece. A large mass of purple crayon looms in the centre of the piece. (Piece made in collaboration with Eli McGill - Hyde)
“AR-CHIVE”
A abstract mixed media piece. A distorted Nintendo Gameboy handheld console takes up a majority of the piece. Purple and blue lines weave their way around the piece. (Piece made in collaboration with Eli McGill - Hyde)
“RE-CORD”
A poster style digital illustration of a face illustrated using blues and a face illustrated using pinks, merge into each other. The words: "WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?" can be read in a distorted text.

“Precipice of Chronos”

An abstract black and white photograph. A dark rectangle occupies the centre of the image.
“Match Strike”
A black and white photograph of ice forming in layers over mud.
“Tessalate”

Refine

(2022)

A voice rings loud and clear. Trauma and dysphoria but also humour and healing.
See the world with eyes unclouded…

A censored photograph of a figure posing with a plunger. A patent leather mask is crudely overlaid on the figures head.
A censored photograph of a figure posing with a plunger. A patent leather mask is crudely overlaid on the figures head.
A censored photograph of a figure posing with a plunger. A patent leather mask is crudely overlaid on the figures head.

“The Three Muses”

A digital collage of a face split down the middle with text overlaid on top.

“Letter From the Editor” page two of the gaze magazine. Welcome to the show…

A lone figure stands against a pale blue wall. The figure is naked apart from a pair of dark blue briefs. There is blood dripping from the figures proper left hand and blood smeared across their chest. A deep wound is present under the figures proper right pectoral.
“Dysphoria”
A digital illustration of a pair of thick and muscular legs. The figures genitals are exposed and pale green flames bloom from the figures deep red skin.
“God is Angry”
A black and white negative image of two hands pressing against black lines the arc out into all directions.

“Against the Invisible Net”

A low contrast digital painting of a person’s torso using shades of pink and yellow. The person’s arms are outstretched, reaching off the canvas, exposing their armpits to the viewer. The persons face cannot be seen. Top surgery scars can be seen faintly under the person’s pectorals.
“Welcome to the Body”
A digital painting using pale shades of pink and blue. The figure in the center of the canvas is clad, head to toe, in latex. Another masked figure crests over the central figures proper left shoulder. Multiple figures overlap in the background.
“Bubblegum”
A masked individual with piercing eyes gazes through abstract text that forms the word “gaze” at the bottom of the piece. Eight, four pointed stars frame the title on each side of the word in varying degrees of opacity. The piece contains washes of various shades of pink, purple, blue as well as stark white swatches.

Cover of the “gaze” magazine. Beginnings and endings converge…

“What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror… Then we shall see, face to face. When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child. Now that I am a man, I have no more use for childish ways.” – Major Motoko Kusanagi/Puppet Master, “Ghost in the Shell” (1997)

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Noah Demchuk is a visual artist whose work emerges from vulnerability, tenderness and inconsistency. They completed their first year in 2019 at the Yukon School of Visual Art in Dawson City before transferring to Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Noah chose the visual arts major as a way to access as many forms of creative expression as they could.

They utilize photography, digital illustration as well as a scanned images and collage to create unique spaces for healing. They are drawn to queer erotic imagery, finding safety and euphoria in various circles of the kink community. Their work dares to be looked at, to be ogled at, for it too gazes at its viewers whether the pieces have eyes or not. Leather and latex reveal through concealing.

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