Gloria Adams
USA (United States)
www.gloriaadamsart.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Ölmalerei
Stil: Gegenständlich
Statement:
I was raised in rural western Pennsylvania, where hard work, early marriage and family rearing are valued more than a college education. My childhood experiences of hunting, riffle associations, Christianity, and factory work contrasted by my liberal college education and now urban surroundings, have influenced my artwork. My paintings draw from my experience of navigating the cultural space between rural poverty and the college-educated upper-middle class.
The setting of the paintings is the natural landscape of Pennsylvania. I activate this landscape with plants and animals native to or imported into the region, and with young girls. The children can be understood in three ways. They symbolize multiple actions of one person, the roles of women and youth in rural society, or self-portraits in multiple mental and emotional states. The narratives created between the girls, animals, and insects are dictated by the metaphoric meanings assigned to each. The dolls reference the past and present, motherhood, childhood and heritage. The pigeons are urban rats, rural doves, and a means of escape for the girls in the narrative. The hair signifies memory that is unavoidable, beautiful and problematic.
The paintings refer to my experience of living between two cultures and to global current events, such as the most recent war in Iraq and environmental crisis. I construct the paintings in oil on smoothly primed canvas, considering in detail the significance and character of every object. The finished works call to mind magic, theater, children’s stories, myth and legend and create an emotional experience that is beyond the fundamental core of the objects depicted.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Education
2006 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD
Hoffberger School of Painting
Master of Fine Arts, Painting
2002 Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
Bachelor of Arts
Fine Art and Sociology, Honors and High Honors respectively
Sociology Thesis: Race, Whiteness, and Higher Education in Northwestern Pennsylvania
Professional License
2008 New York State Department of Education: K-12 Visual Fine Arts Teaching Certificate
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Recent Works, Gallery Anthony Curtis, http://www.galleryanthonycurtis.com, Boston, MA
Piles and Extensions, JK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Launch, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2003 Of Home and Hope, New Bethlehem Public Library, New Bethlehem, PA
2002 Untitled #1, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Changing Landscapes, Clarion County Arts Council, Clarion, PA
Select Group Exhibitions
2009 25 New York Painters Under 35, The Painting Center, New York, NY (upcoming)
The Concept of Contemporary Art, Gallery Meepyung, Seoul Korea
Art and Criticism Art Fair Seoul, 2009, Seoul Art Gallery, Seoul Korea
Print, City College of New York, New York, NY
12th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Fall Arts Festival, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
The Circular Exhibition, Gallery Ho, Seoul, Korea
The Circular Exhibition, Hun Gallery, New York, NY
15x15, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Her-seria, Metropolitan College, New York, NY
NoHo NY Art Walk, NoHo NY Business Improvement District, NY, NY
Generations VI, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
International Artists Residencies-Budapest/Balatonfured/Csopak 2006-2007-2008, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007 NoHo NY Art Walk, NoHo NY Business Improvement District, New York, NY
Reality Gallery: American Slide-All, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Projekt30 January Exhibition, www.projekt30.com
2006 American Diaspora, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ
Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
From/About, Central-European Cultural Institute, Balatonfüred-Csopak, Hungary
From/About-Signals from Central-Europe, Keki Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Hoffberger Group Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2004 Boxing, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 Oberlin College Online Gallery, http://www.oberlin.edu/gallery
Towers and Trees: Urban and Rural Landscapes, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Biography
Gloria Adams grew up in north western Pennsylvania. She received a Bachelors degree in Studio Art and Sociology from Oberlin College in 2002. She then completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting in 2006 where she studied with Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan and critic Dominique Nahas. Gloria has participated in Artist Residencies including the 13th Annual International Artist Residency in Balatonfured, Hungary and The Vermont Studio Center in 2006. She has exhibited her work in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, California, Europe and Asia. Gloria has also received honors for her work including grants and scholarships. She currently lives and works in Bronx, New York
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Hair Cut
Malerei
Ölmalerei
120 x 160 x 5 cm
2005
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Ghosts
Malerei
Ölmalerei
100 x 95 x 5 cm
2006
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Apathy
Malerei
Ölmalerei
80 x 70 x 5 cm
2007
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Flood
Malerei
Ölmalerei
65 x 70 x 5 cm
2008
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Circus
Malerei
Ölmalerei
65 x 70 x 5 cm
2008
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Tree House
Malerei
Ölmalerei
170 x 95 x 5 cm
2006
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