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Adam5100:
The Heart Vs. The Mind in a Fight to the Finish
Please join us for the opening reception
Saturday May 24th, 6pm - 10pm
Show Runs:
May 21st - June 21st
Rowan Morrison Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition
of innovative new stencil works by Adam5100.
Internationally renowned stencil artist Adam5100 returns
to Oakland with his most ambitious body of artwork yet. Combining
an almost inhuman dexterity with the X-acto blade and the spray
can, Adam continually surprises his audience with the places he
has taken artwork made from the traditional printmaking technique
of stenciling. Drawing imagery from the traditions of modern American
photography as well as the freedom of contemporary figurative
painting, each piece is the result of hundreds of hours of labor
and tens of thousands of hours of experience. Adam’s artwork
is meticulous, imaginative, and innovative.
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For “The Heart Vs. The Mind in a Fight to the
Finish”, Adam5100 has created artwork that again pushes the limits
of the medium of hand-cut stencil artwork. The show features photorealistic
and figurative stencil paintings (sometimes using up to 9 different
hand-cut color separations), shadow installations, sculptures, prints,
and a 48 square-foot outdoor mural. His work takes on a modernist approach,
using traditional yet revisited and refined techniques that are truly
his own. Adam’s unique voice amid the final result is purely contemporary,
yet his reverence for history in both technique and subject matter is
palpably universal.
Adam5100 was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He carries
a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California College of Arts and Crafts (now
CCA) with Distinction and is a recipient of the prestigious Yozo Hamaguchi
award in printmaking. He has exhibited worldwide and has recently worked
with William Wiley for a work that was commissioned by the San Jose
Art Museum and is scheduled to exhibit at the Smithsonian Institute
in DC.
More of Adam's work is online at www.adam5100.com
video trailers of Adam's studio work can be viewed on the Rowan
Morrison Video page.
Artwork
images and pricelist available here. |