Christopher Noxon

Christopher Noxon paints and writes in Ojai, California. He began making art seriously in midlife, after raising kids and working as a journalist and illustrator in Los Angeles. The Santa Paula Art Museum hosts his show Greenbelt: Interplay and Imagination at the Edge of Wildness in 2024 and Sullivan Goss Gallery in Santa Barbara featured his work in the exhibit “Betty Lane & Christopher Noxon: From One Generation to the Next.” His work is in the permanent collection of the Ojai Valley Museum and he’s shown at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles and the Beatrice Woods Center for the Arts. His writing and illustrations have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and New York Times Magazine; books include Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook, Plus One: A Novel and Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up.