Noah Pfister

Gods and Monsters

10 - 21 Dec 2025

Opening night

12 December | 6 - 8pm

G4

Artist Statement

Pfister’s work seeks to express the most profoundly abstract subject matter - that is the nature of God, or reality. This pursuit leads to the deepest duality of forces, explored and expressed by ancient religions all over the world - the dual forces of creation and destruction. These are two sides of the same coin, one cannot create something new without taking apart what was. The unification of these two opposites is the great task of systems of philosophical thought such as Taoism, the task of defining that which cannot be defined. This is just Pfister’s pursuit. By employing a style of abstract expressionistic painting which embraces instinct and process over deliberate planning, by following a process of defining patterns and then interrupting them, and cycling this process until the piece is finished, Pfister aims to express the profound unknowability of the cosmos. 

Underpinning his style is also a belief in the value of complexity. Pfister believes that all great things are complicated rather than simple. Indeed even the human brain is known to be the most complex object in the known universe. For this reason he develops his paintings to the highest degree of complexity he can manage. Fractal dimension and Shannon entropy analyses of his paintings using A.I. confirm that the very highest degrees of complexity possible have been achieved in his work.

Artist Biography

Pfister is an abstract expressionist painter whose work unites the aesthetics of chaos and order through the language of fractal geometry. Drawing on influences from mathematics, physics, and mythology, Pfister’s paintings evoke both cosmic vastness and microscopic intricacy, reflecting nature’s own recursive design.

Educated in both art and science, Pfister studied visual arts at RMIT University, completed a Renaissance drawing apprenticeship, and undertook academic drawing training alongside a year of Science at Swinburne University. Additional studies include courses at the National Gallery of Victoria in Colour Theory and First Nations Art of Australia, as well as independent training in Japanese calligraphy, forming a synthesis of scientific precision and expressive abstraction.

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)