Adam J. Ansell
Painter
The daring paintings of Adam J. Ansell take the viewer into a bizarre and bold-colored world that may be identifiable, yet not the same for each person. Adam instinctually uses his initial color field to dictate who and what is to be coaxed out of the paint. He responds impulsively to each colored mark and exaggerated tone, consciously keeping alive the natural element of chance. After the latex paint accumulates on the wood to it’s required texture, and the melting outlines begin to take shape, Adam reduces the subject matter, which forever lives underneath the painting’s background- infusing the flat areas with explosive underlying energy and matter, and sustaining the life of the primary subject. The expressionistic works are finally glazed with a glossy acrylic finish, which accentuates the richness of color, and density of each painting. Adam’s edgy high fashion paintings are filled with contradictions: interior and exterior, passionate and empty, rugged and delicate, improvisational and meditational, spontaneous and labored, stark and festive.
Selected Solo Exhibitions in San Francisco
2012 EXIT Rat Creek
2010 Spunk Really good look on you
2009 The LAB Eye of the Puppet
2007 Bloomingdales Power Scarf
2005 Adobe Seagull Shores
2005 New Langton Arts Hypermodern Dress-Up
2004 National Product Ugly Beauty
2003 Glama-Rama Whosit?
2002 North Star Formal
1998 Scene-Asena Black Magic Marker
1998 455 Maze
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Lisa Cooley Gallery, NY Witch Favors
2011 La Petite Mort, Ottawa The Infidels
2011 2nd Floor Projects, SF Flat File
2010 Box-Cutter Gallery, Copenhagen Endless Gratitude 2009 Lower Manhatten Cultural Council, NY I, Daughter of Kong
2008 World of Wonder, LA Departed
2007 World of Wonder, LA Gals Gone Wild
2006 Eleanor Harwood Gallery, SF Otherworld
