Adam Mysock holds a BFA degree in Painting and Art History from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In collaboration with his studio practice, he has taught at the university level for more than 10 years, most recently as a Senior Professor of Practice at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Adams' Fruit
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Acrylic, Panel
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (Last Judgment)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Hans Memling's "The Last Judgment" triptych (c. late 1460's), Bambi's mother from Disney's "Bambi" (1942) acrylic on panel, mounted on a J.P. Sau...
Acrylic, Panel
$3,500
A Fool
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862 I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Death of Seneca by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (1871) and Eaton's Neck, Long Island by John Frederick Kensett (1872) Painted as a response to the ongoing conversations about race and policing in the United States in 2020, Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief focuses on the problem of the “But what about…” conversations that too often accompany discussions about systemic racism and discrimination. From the nonsensical All Lives Matter crowd to the virtue-signaling of more well-meaning, empathetic groups, people outside of BIPOC communities too frequently seem ready to misdirect valuable attention away from meaningful change toward their own unthreatened subcultures. Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief presents a mourning white male pulled from The Death of Seneca hovering above the shore of Eaton’s Neck, far from an “X” drawn in the sand. The setting is simple and uncomplicated beyond the target on its shore. However, the forlorn figure draws the spotlight away from the marked terrain toward his dramatic presentation of suffering. ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007. After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center. Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
Acrylic, Panel
Waiting for the Pool to Open
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: William Bradford's "Scene in the Arctic" (c. 1880) and Peder Severin Kroyer "Boys Bathing at Skagen, Summer Evening" (1899) Framed 11h x 13.75w in Living in a house which sits about 5 feet below sea level, I find myself thinking about rising sea levels a lot. There’s a great possibility that the home where my wife and I have begun our family will be underwater centuries from now. Conversely, swimming has always been a passion of mine – my wife and I even met on a swim team early in our teenage years. In trying to find the silver lining to global warming drowning our home, I can look for solace in the fact that there’ll be more places to go swimming when the seas overtake our coastal areas. There’s an innocence in Kroyer’s boys – and the concept of children swimming...
Acrylic, Panel
Having Found the Lowest Threshold (St. George Slaying the Dragon)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Nicolas Poussin’s Massacre of the Innocents, from 1629 Framed: 8.50h x 9.50w in In the summer of 2013, the murder of Trayvon Martin dominated weeks of news cycles. As if we n...
Acrylic, Panel
A Weak Compromise
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A donkey, symbol of the Democratic Party Democrats promote themselves as consistently ethical. So, when they inevitably get caught lying, the fault i...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Real and Imagined
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Building (1903), and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Acrylic, Panel
OF-Foot3
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
Cowboys Making Vowel Sounds - Ah
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Paper, Varnish, Graphite
$3,600
Davie Crockett, Pecos Bill, the Bull Moose Party, and a Man Walking into Frame
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 10h x 10w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Acrylic, Panel
Our Legacy of Engagement
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: “La Lutte” by Émile Friant, 1889 Framed: 10h x 8.50w in As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been particularly struck by the staggering number of unintende...
Acrylic, Panel
Distorted Perspectives
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Jan Veth’s “Portrait of Cornelia, Clara, and Johanna Veth” from 1885. ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a...
Acrylic, Panel
And, lo, three men stood by Abraham
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: "And, lo, three men stood by Abraham: and when he saw [them], he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground" After: “Punishment of Korah” by Domenico Beccafumi (1537) and “The Banjo Player” by William Sydney Mount (1855) Framed: 6.90h x 8.10w in This image really began with my knowledge of the American artist of the source painting – William Sydney Mount. While Mount is acknowledged as one of the first painters to present African- Americans in a positive light, his beliefs about slavery were at odds with Abraham Lincoln’s. In response, he seems to have wrestled with the good and evil aspects of his beliefs. The imagery of Moses on his knees (from Domenico Beccafumi’s Punishment of Korah, Dathan and Abiram) comes from a similar narrative about a struggle between good and evil. In it, Moses’ divine connections were challenged by tribal leaders and as a result the earth split open and swallowed the malicious contenders, leaving only the good. William Sydney Mount’s painting of The Banjo Player serves as a stage that hints at both something positive (the musical reference) and something negative (figures emerging on their knees, as if being released from captivity.) The musical poster...
Acrylic, Panel
Red Sky in the Morning (Day One)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "Twlight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860 Framed: 3.50h x 3.50w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an element...
Acrylic, Panel
A Willing Ignorance
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John Singer Sargent’s Gassed, 1919 When considering the factors that are required (or at least helpful) for a lie to succeed, I constantly look to the audience. I constantly tr...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
OF-Hand3
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
The Consequences of Empty Threats
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Friedrich Edwin Church's "The Iceberg" (1875) and Henry Raeburn's "The Archers" (1789-1790) Framed: 11h x 13.25w in While considering our great power over, and responsibility...
Acrylic, Panel
A Surmountable Problem Writ Large
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Young Beggar by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (c. 1645-50) and Approaching Thunder Storm by Martin Johnson Heade (1859) The main character of this painting finds himself mired in a pond as a sizeable storm approaches, and yet – instead of standing up and removing himself from the trouble – he chooses to focus on the discomfort of his wet clothing. This child, attending to a minor nuisance rather than enacting a permanent solution, stands in as an icon of our current sociopolitical leadership – leadership which has defined our modern reality by its preference for constantly kicking the can on major issues (climate change, income inequality, various forms of discrimination, and so much more) as the rest of us are left to watch from the shore. ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007. After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center. Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
Acrylic, Panel
$7,500
Outward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Exploring Parties in the Vicinity of the Ground Station” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1956) In Outward, I chose to return to the allure of the...
Acrylic, Panel
A Horrifying Self-Actualization
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 At some point the lying has to stop, right? But when? I’m no longer convinced that any external stimulus...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Bit Too Far
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 As we seek this fine line separating safe lying from detrimental misdirection, we often have to cross it...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
OF-Head25
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
An Opportunity to Test
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Thomas Eakins’ Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), 1875 Knowing what we do about insufficient consequences, we will always test the limits of acceptable lying. ...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Seduction
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From John William Waterhouse’s A Mermaid, 1900 We have a wonderful capacity to impose fictions on others in order to make them desirable. We o...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Bid to Gain Attention
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Baron Munchausen from The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Columbia Pictures, 1988 The concept of Munchausen Syndrome offers another per...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Tentative Probe
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642 The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Earliest Portrait of Everything
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: the European Space Agency's Planck Observatory's imaging of Cosmic Microwave Background Framed: 4h x 7.75w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 198...
Acrylic, Panel
Madison Fats, Oils and Sweets
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 20h x 18w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the...
Acrylic, Panel
And Abraham looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: And Abraham looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went u...
Acrylic, Panel
$2,000
Coming
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: a NASA image of the Andromeda Galaxy Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes ...
Acrylic, Panel
If He Wasn't Handsome, Would He Still be Super?
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Joseph Shuster’s Superman #1 Cover (1939) and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Acrylic, Panel
Where the Snow in Snow Globes Came From
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, MA, after a Thunderstorm - The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole Framed: 6h x 7.80w in Looking back at the work of Thomas Cole and his contemp...
Acrylic, Panel
In Search of What Once Was
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Sanford Gifford's "the Desert at Assouan, Egypt" (1869) and Ilya Repin's "Procession in the Province of Kursk" (1881-1883) Framed 7h x 14w in I began this piece with the inte...
Acrylic, Panel
Jefferson's Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dried Beans, Eggs, and Nuts
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in the manufacturing of pigm...
Acrylic, Panel
And the Rocket's Red Glare
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 12h x 8.60w in ABOUT THE ARTIST Adam Mysock was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specializes in t...
Acrylic, Panel
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran" After: “Basket of Clams” by Winslow Homer (1873) and “Moses Striking the Rock” by Abraham Bloemaert (1596) Framed: 12h x 10.50w in This piece began with two stories about striking a rock to get water – that of Moses from Exodus and that of the S.S. Minnow of Gilligan’s Island...
Acrylic, Panel
$7,500
Forward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Getting Ready to Leave” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1954) With Forward, I wanted an image with the clearest spatial hierarchy – back, middle, a...
Acrylic, Panel
OF-Torso1
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head22
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head27
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head21
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head28
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head26
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head24
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Hand4
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head19
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head20
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head18
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head10
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head4
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head9
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head17
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head15
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head8
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head16
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Foot1
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Foot2
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Paper, Acrylic
A Platform
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Ted Turner, founder of CNN and by extension a 24-hour news cycle I’ll blame everything wrong with America on Ted Turner. Don’t misread me – h...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Automated Message
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From a series of paintings by Ed Valigursky. Our technology is staggering. We now have computers that can lie for us. For proof you only need to head over to any online comment boar...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel