Patrick Adams Abstract Paintings

Patrick Adams ROUSILLON Acrylic and collage on canvas 64.00 X 56.00 in $6,600.00

Patrick Adams, POHJOLA, Oil paint on two panels, 68.00 X 80.00 in, $13,000.00, Brown, Orange, Abstract, painting, oil paint Through our experience of art, we experience our everyday...

Patrick Adams, ECHO, Oil Paint on Panel, 48.00 X 36.00 in, $6,000.00, Abstract, Pink, purple, oil paint, painting Through our experience of art, we experience our everyday world tra...

Patrick Adams, BEND, Oil on Panel, 54.00 X 48.00 in, $7,500.00, Abstract, Red, Orange, painting, oil paint Through our experience of art, we experience our everyday world transforme...

Patrick Adams, CLOUD OF UNKNOWING, Oil paint on panel, 48.00 X 42.00 in, $7,000.00, Blue, Grey, Abstract, painting, landscape, oil paint Through our experience of art, we experience...

Adamah by artist Patrick Adams is an orange, purple, and blue contemporary abstract expressionist landscape made with oil paint on panel that measures 36 x 80 and is priced at $12,50...

SENANQUE II by artist Patrick Adams is a pink, purple, and blue, contemporary abstract landscape painting made of oil paint on panel that measures 48 x 48 and is priced at $6,000. ...

In Two Worlds: the diptych landscapes 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. Born: 1965, Worthington, MN. Education Master of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1992. Bachelor of Arts, Winona State University, Winona, MN, 1989. Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council, 2000. Al Smith Fellowship/Professional Assistance Award, Kentucky Arts Council, 1998. Teaching Assistantship/full-scholarship, University of Kentucky Art Department, 1990-92. Mausycki Art Scholarship, Winona State University, Winona, MN, 1988-89. Recent Solo Exhibitions 2016 The Many and the One, Evansville Museum of Art, Science, and History, Evansville, IN. In Two Worlds, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY 2015 Elemental Signs, Apostles Anglican Church and Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY In Two Worlds, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN 2012 The Elements, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK Of Water and Spirit, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. 2010 New Work, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2009 Heaven and Earth, Z. T. Johnson Gallery, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY. 2008 Outside Looking In, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2007 Patrick Adams, The Harcum Art Gallery, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH. Evidence, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. 2006 Of Light and Dust, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2005 A Delicate Balance, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2004 Real Presence, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. An Uncreated Light, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2003 Idylls (catalogue available), Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL. 2002 Field of Vision, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. 2001 The Journey from Bonnieux, Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL. New Work, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2000 Layers of Time, Tower Cerlan Gallery, Lexington, KY. 1998 New Works on Paper, Chapman Gallery at Science Hill, Shelbyville, KY. Recent Two-Person Exhibitions 2010 Surfaces: Patrick Adams and Peter Hoffer. Gallery KH, Chicago, IL. 2008 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. 2007 New Work: Patrick Adams and Tamar Kander, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. Recent Group Exhibitions 2014 Essence of the Landscape, Art Access Gallery, Columbus (Bexley), OH 2013 Art Aspen, Aspen, CO (represented by Costello-Childs Contemporary) New Faces, Costello-Childs Contemporary Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ Inaugural Opening, KM Fine Arts (formerly Gallery KH, Chicago, IL), Los Angeles, CA 2012 My Favorite Things, Gallery Onen Nashville, TN Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK 2010 Morpeth Contemporary, Hopewell, NJ 2009 Paintings by Patrick Adams, Ron Arps, and Allen Crocket, Art Access Gallery, Bexley (Columbus), OH. 2007 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. 2006 Angles on Abstract, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2006 Uncommon Wealth: Legacy of the Kentucky Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowships, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY. 2005 Group Exhibition, Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago, IL. 2005 The Ever-changing Landscape (invitational), Kentucky Museum of Art and Design, Louisville, KY. Grand Opening Exhibition, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2003 Exhibition 280/Parameters (catalogue available; Peter Plagens, Newsweek art critic, juror), Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Between a Thought and a Thing, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. Art Bound, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2002 Gallery 5017, Fort Worth, TX. 2001 Small Stuff, Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV. 1999 The Peripheral as Preoccupation, Studio San Guiseppe Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Recent Media/Reviews Alexandra Jean Harper...

The Elements The artist, John Marin, whose work has remained a centering force for my imagination, once wrote, Seems to me the true artist must perforce go from time to time to the elemental big forms—Sky, Sea, Mountain, Plain—and those things pertaining thereto, to sort of re-true himself up, to recharge the battery. For these big forms have everything. But to express these, you have to love these, to be a part of these in sympathy… Like Marin, I have chosen to address these ‘elemental big forms’ not only ‘from time to time’ but always. And not simply because I need constant ‘recharging’ (I do) but because I think we all do. I want people to see the natural world not as a backdrop to their lives, but as the very heart of their lives. The beauty of these forms is not just to delight us (though it does), but also to give us life. Beauty is not simply an ornament, a surface phenomenon, but the essence and power of being. And, if beauty is accompanied at all times, as many great thinkers both ancient and modern have asserted, by goodness and truth, then we ignore it to our peril. —Patrick Adams Born: 1965, Worthington, MN. Education Master of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1992. Bachelor of Arts, Winona State University, Winona, MN, 1989. Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships Al Smith Fellowship, Kentucky Arts Council, 2000. Al Smith Fellowship/Professional Assistance Award, Kentucky Arts Council, 1998. Teaching Assistantship/full-scholarship, University of Kentucky Art Department, 1990-92. Mausycki Art Scholarship, Winona State University, Winona, MN, 1988-89. Recent Solo Exhibitions 2016 The Many and the One, Evansville Museum of Art, Science, and History, Evansville, IN. In Two Worlds, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY 2015 Elemental Signs, Apostles Anglican Church and Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY In Two Worlds, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN 2012 The Elements, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK Of Water and Spirit, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. 2010 New Work, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2009 Heaven and Earth, Z. T. Johnson Gallery, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY. 2008 Outside Looking In, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2007 Patrick Adams, The Harcum Art Gallery, Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH. Evidence, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. 2006 Of Light and Dust, Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2005 A Delicate Balance, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2004 Real Presence, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. An Uncreated Light, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2003 Idylls (catalogue available), Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL. 2002 Field of Vision, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. 2001 The Journey from Bonnieux, Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL. New Work, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2000 Layers of Time, Tower Cerlan Gallery, Lexington, KY. 1998 New Works on Paper, Chapman Gallery at Science Hill, Shelbyville, KY. Recent Two-Person Exhibitions 2010 Surfaces: Patrick Adams and Peter Hoffer. Gallery KH, Chicago, IL. 2008 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. 2007 New Work: Patrick Adams and Tamar Kander, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. Recent Group Exhibitions 2014 Essence of the Landscape, Art Access Gallery, Columbus (Bexley), OH 2013 Art Aspen, Aspen, CO (represented by Costello-Childs Contemporary) New Faces, Costello-Childs Contemporary Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ Inaugural Opening, KM Fine Arts (formerly Gallery KH, Chicago, IL), Los Angeles, CA 2012 My Favorite Things, Gallery Onen Nashville, TN Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK 2010 Morpeth Contemporary, Hopewell, NJ 2009 Paintings by Patrick Adams, Ron Arps, and Allen Crocket, Art Access Gallery, Bexley (Columbus), OH. 2007 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. 2006 Angles on Abstract, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2006 Uncommon Wealth: Legacy of the Kentucky Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowships, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY. 2005 Group Exhibition, Mary Bell Galleries, Chicago, IL. 2005 The Ever-changing Landscape (invitational), Kentucky Museum of Art and Design, Louisville, KY. Grand Opening Exhibition, Gallery One, Nashville, TN. 2003 Exhibition 280/Parameters (catalogue available; Peter Plagens, Newsweek art critic, juror), Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Between a Thought and a Thing, Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY. Art Bound, Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. 2002 Gallery 5017, Fort Worth, TX. 2001 Small Stuff, Annex Gallery, Charleston, WV. 1999 The Peripheral as Preoccupation, Studio San Guiseppe Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Recent Media/Reviews Alexandra Jean Harper...

Patrick Adams BREAK Oil Paint on Canvas 10.00 X 10.00 in $1,000.00

In Two Worlds: the diptych landscapes 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 ...

Education Master of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1992. Bachelor of Arts, Winona State University, Winona, MN, 1989. Awards/Fellowships/Scholarships Al Smith...