Patrick Adams

United States , 1965

Embankment

Patrick Adams

Exhibit by Aberson

1000€

Red Earth

Patrick Adams

Exhibit by Aberson

8500€

Bend

Patrick Adams

Exhibit by Aberson

7500€

Clearing

Patrick Adams

Exhibit by Aberson

6000€

Cloud of Unknowing

Patrick Adams

Exhibit by Aberson

7000€

About Patrick Adams

Born in 1965, Worthington

Art has a very elusive nature. On the one hand, it exists as a very concrete, physical thing made of paint, canvas, wood, or whatever material or medium the artist has chosen. On the other hand—and at the same time—it calls us to a place beyond our normal experience of the world, to a place we might call spiritual. Art seems to be the vehicle through which we unite and understand these two worlds. Through our experience of art, we experience our everyday world transformed and reimagined.

"In this body of work, I am using the landscape as a metaphor for art’s—and the artist’s—role in unifying the human experience of the physical and spiritual worlds. To illustrate this idea, I have divided the landscape image along the horizon into two physically separate paintings: the lower half (earth), representing the physical realm, and the upper half (sky, the ‘heavens’) representing the metaphysical, or spiritual realm. These two parts, seen separately, appear flat and incomprehensible, but once brought together, they form an image that acquires an unexpected unity of light, depth, and meaning. I find in this a fitting analogy to our experience of how, through our experience of art, the physical and spiritual worlds are brought together as one, each illuminating and clarifying the other."

Prizes and exposition

Selected Exhibitions

2014
“Essence of the Landscape”, Art Access Gallery

2010
“Variations in the Landscape”, Art Access Gallery

2010
“New Work”, Gallery One, Nashville, TN

2009
“Heaven and Earth”, ZT Johnson Gallery, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY

2008
“Outside Looking In”, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Lousiville, KY
Outside Looking In, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville
Abstract Paintings, Art Access Gallery, Bexley, OH
Intimate Spaces: New Works by Patrick Adams and Susan Hall. Gallery One, Nashville, TN.
Together Again for the First Time: New Paintings by Robert Tharsing and Patrick Adams. Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY.
New Work: Patrick Adams and Tamar Kandar, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY.
Uncommon Wealth; A retrospective of past recipients of the prestigious Al Smith Fellowship Award (traveling exhibition, 2007-08), Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY.
Drawing from Our Past, Alumni Invitational, Watkins Gallery, Winona State University, Winona, MN.

Patrick Adams

Embankment

Red Earth

Bend

Clearing

Cloud of Unknowing

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