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I’m excited to announce my new exhibition Synthetic Accretion. Synthetic Accretion will be a site—specific installation at Blackfish Gallery, and run from 09.03.25 – 09.27.25. Come by for the First Thursday opening on September 5!

In the synthetic transcendence of new materials, we have created substances which defy both the limits and safeguards of ecological necessity. Just as plastic once freed humanity from the restraints of chemical bonds, now synthetic culture offers us freedom from the human spirit. 

In his new installation, Synthetic Accretion, Noah Alexander Isaac Stein, explores AI and plastic as parallel components of an emergent synthetic human experience. Through recovered transparent plastic waste, and shifting multicolored light, Stein mirrors the disorientation and ambient technological allure of contemporary cultural networks. 

If the accumulation of microplastics in the human blood stream are a physical manifestation of synthetic process, Stein invites us to consider the immaterial synthetic as a corollary in the dream-oceans of our collective unconscious.

I’m excited to announce my upcoming solo exhibition at Blackfish Gallery! I’ve been busy working on several new large scale works for the show that I will be exhibiting for the first time, along with a collection of work from the last few years. Many of these pieces are being shown for the first time.

• The show will be on display from April 2 -26 at Blackfish Gallery, 938 NW Everett St., Portland OR.
• The opening reception will be on April 3 from 5 – 8 PM
• I’ll be having an artist talk on Sunday, April 13 at 2 PM

From the press release:

In this new body of work Noah Alexander Isaac Stein explores dualities of interconnection and numinous experience through the lens of mind attempting to move beyond itself. With fire as a metaphor for the transformative act that simultaneously consumes and creates, A Luminous Fire from a Broken Machine approaches the potential for transcendent experience as a resolution to suffering. 

Stein’s work frequently focuses on expressive painting, where interactions of oil and cold wax are used as a catalyst for spiritual epiphany, Noah’s art seeks to provide universal connection point between the artist and audience.

As a part of the exhibition, Stein’s art will be accompanied by a series of his written works which building of his synthesis of expressive and conceptual approaches.

I’m excited to have three installations featured in the 10th annual light festival, which runs from Feb 7 – 15.

Garden at the End of the Anthropocene imagines the growth of a new ecosystem; forgotten technology of the future melding together with unfathomable new forms of biology among the refuse of civilization. Reminiscent of both a techno-vision dream and bioluminescent fungal growth, the installation will speak to both the fate of the of human synthetic detritus, and the resilience of the natural world. Viewable at Ambient Magic Studios.

Behold the Man; at the Threshold of the Future is viewable as part of the Labyrinth of Light at East Creative Collective: “Perched between the future and the past, we stand at the threshold of possibility. We are half animal, still torn by the same desires, fears, and tribalism as our cousins and ancestors. We are half machine, forms bound to technology, and minds inexorably interlinked through code and algorithms, forebears of our future children. We aspire to be gods, ascendent over nature; we are polluted, body, soul, and mind with the plastic sparks of synthesis.”

Aurora is an in-gallery exhibition at Blackfish Gallery that draws inspiration from arctic cycles to explore light as conceptual force of meaning. Accompanying the installation is an original ambient soundscape composed by Jason Kowalski.