Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present Lacuna, Noah Cribb's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The term lacuna refers to an unfilled space, a gap—something missing within a larger whole. In Noah Cribb's new body of work, this idea is treated not as absence but as a generative interval, a site of tension where meaning emerges.
Building on his previous exhibition, Realms of Unimaginable Power, which explored a path forged through the turbulent trails of matters of the heart, intimacy, and spirituality, Lacuna pushes further into questions of incompleteness and rupture. Where earlier works sought resolution through accumulation—layered surfaces, densely worked passages—these new paintings allow space to remain unresolved. Gaps of raw canvas interrupt the image, functioning not as unfinished gestures but as central compositional elements. These voids act as both barrier and bridge: the distance between, the silence within language, the breath that holds us in suspension.
Cribb's evolution lies in this embrace of the unspoken. If his past work was preoccupied with articulating experience, Lacuna acknowledges the impossibility of full articulation. What cannot be said becomes the very ground of the work. The lacuna is not merely an absence but an active field—a cradle ("la cuna"), a container for spirit, for ambiguity, for the viewer's own projections.
In this way, Lacuna positions absence as presence, fracture as possibility. The works suggest that meaning is not found in resolution but in the gaps we circle, the spaces we inhabit together yet cannot fully close.
About Noah Cribb
Noah Cribb sources inspiration from personal mythologies built upon experiences centered around closeness to the natural world. These explorations often involve investigating complexities linked to the human experience, spirituality, and fantasy.
Cribb's connection to nature is evident in his art, where he uses natural materials throughout his work as a starting point for building out worlds of fantasy, whether imagined or rooted in firsthand experiences with specific places in time. The Florida native grew up continuously interacting with his local environment, from regular hikes with his grandmother to post-hurricane debris collection with his father. These early memories directly influenced Cribb, who still visits natural environments as part of his process to gather experiences, imagery, sounds, and materials.
Noah Cribb is a multi-media artist based in Miami. His work has been exhibited at The Freedom Tower in Miami, FL. Recent residencies include Bakehouse Summer Open (2025) and the Vermont Studio Center (February 2025). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum and the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens. He received a BFA from New World School of the Arts in 2022.
