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.
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
A False Prophet
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of news anchor Brian Williams Similar to the regular fall of the Democrats, Brian Williams positioned himself as a figure worthy of our trust nightly. He convinced us tha...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Sense of Guilt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers I suppose I like to believe that liars know they’re lying. I like to believe it’s a controlled activity. And if they...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Pretty Face and a Nice Body
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Lance Armstrong We tend to exercise differing levels of tolerance for different liars. Some people get called out immediately, while oth...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Role Model
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Charles Ponzi When we combine the power of lies to persuade with their ability to establish a false hierarchy, we end up with Charles Ponzi – the eponym of the Ponzi S...
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 Frail Attempt
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, 1484-86 We desire attention, but no one likes a show-off. So, we’ve sharpened our ability to practice false modesty. We pretend to cover ours...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A First Apology
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Mark McGwire If we are caught lying, it is the suddenly being singled-out that proves most unsettling. We are temporarily relieved of our ability to define our own pub...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Lack of Consequence
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 Forgive and forget. That’s what we’re taught to do ...
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
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 Reliable Pardon
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652 As we invariably test the waters of lying, we quickly learn to recognize the more forgiving...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Counter Example
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln We’ve assigned a great deal of responsibility to our shared cultural figures when it comes to teaching lessons about truth, fiction, and morality. We u...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
An Attempt at Morality
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve, 1507 Akin to the historical narratives we’re fed in an attempt to steer us away from a life of lies, the narrative of Adam, Eve, and the serpent ...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Constant, Attractive Artifice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A mannequin For some reason, mannequins seemed to be everywhere when I was growing up. Maybe it was growing up during the heyday of malls in America. Nevertheless, with their clearl...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Cautionary Tale
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, Disney, 1940 Are there any more recognizable stories about the difficulties that can accompany lying than that of Pinocchio? For the puppet-...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
A Brush With Justice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652 Sooner or later, we get caught lying. For most of us, it’s incredibly early in life, and the falsehood detected is innocuou...
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Red Sky in the Morning (Day Four)
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 elementa...
Acrylic, Panel
An Attempt at Imperfect Optimism (No. 3)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 4h x 4.50w 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 th...
Acrylic, Panel
Red Sky in the Morning (Day Two)
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 elementa...
Acrylic, Panel
An Attempt at Imperfect Optimism (No. 1)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 4h x 4.50w 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 th...
Acrylic, Panel
An Attempt at Imperfect Optimism (No. 2)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 4h x 4.50w 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 th...
Acrylic, Panel
$14,300
Idle Hands
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: "And In His Eyes I Saw Death" by Ejnar Nielsen, 1897 Framed: 10h x 8.50w in Being discontented means being left with choices. We can either accept a current status quo or ch...
Acrylic, Panel
The Last Six, Under Six, Murdered by a Gun in the Sixth
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
installation acrylic on copper, mounted in wall "Late last year, a local news station was reporting on the shooting death of a 7-month old child. As part of their reporting, the a...
Copper
Foreseeing Nothing
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
(after: Henry Fawcett; Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Ford Made Brown, 1872) Framed: 8.50h x 10w in On November 7th, 2016, it seemed as if everyone knew how the U.S. presidential election would conclude, particularly our major media outlets. On the morning of November 9th, 2016, it was clear that no one had known what they had been talking about. We’d spent so much time living in a world defined by largely reliable focus groups, polls, and surveys that we’d become convinced that we could idly predict the future. Our news sources became complacent in their analysis of human behavior, and we followed along. It became the blind leading the blind. But what truly struck me was that we seemed surprised to discover our inability to foresee the future, to discover that we aren’t omniscient. Here—in the tradition of other paintings depicting the parable of the blind...
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
$12,500
What's Left
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: John James Audubon's print of the Florida Cormorant With minimal effort, it’s easy to find a great deal of research about how ecosystems and habitats are being dramatically a...
Acrylic, Panel
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
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
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
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 16w 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
Washington's Bread, Cereal, Rice, and Pasta
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
The Twilight's Last Gleaming
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 15h x 10.50w 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 ...
Acrylic, Panel
The Star-Spangled Banner and Babe the Blue Ox
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 16w 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
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
Franklin's Milk, Yogurt, and Cheese
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
The Bombs Bursting in Air
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 12h x 17.50w 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 ...
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
So Close I Can Almost Touch It
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: Jacob Jordaens’s Odysseus in the Cave of Polyphemus, from 1635 and a NASA photograph of "Mount Sharp" on Mars Framed: 7.50h x 10.50w in As mentioned above, we have technology...
Acrylic, Panel
Black and White Westerns No. 1
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, Graphite, Paper
By the Dawn's Early Light
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed: 11h x 8w 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 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
$3,600
Abraham Lincoln, Paul Bunyon, the Gold Rush of 1849 and a Man Who Doesn't Care
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
$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
$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
Backward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: : “The Landing Craft Raised into Take-off Position” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1956) In the 1940s and 50s, we didn’t have the necessary techn...
Acrylic, Panel
$7,500
Inward
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: “Fueling a Rocket for the Firing of an Artificial Satellite” by Chesley Bonestell (c. 1956) This second Bonestell illustration affords me an ...
Acrylic, Panel
And the LORD said unto Abram...
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
Full title: "And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, 'Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward'" After: “In the Fields” by Eastman Johnson (1880) and “The Sacrifice of Moses” by Massimo Stanzione (1629) Framed: 12h x 17.50w in This piece is about redirection. While inserting Lincoln into Eastman Johnson’s In the Fields, it became quite apparent that emulating Johnson’s paint handling would make it quite difficult to capture a likeness. I needed to clarify Lincoln’s face in order to give him an identity. To overcome the obvious stylistic discrepancies, bizarre elements of Massimo Stanzione’s The Sacrifice of Moses were inserted to pull attention right, most specifically the pointing Moses. Baseball player Pat Burrell (of the 2010 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants...
Acrylic, Panel