Gabriel Adams (USA/NZ)
Gabriel Adams is an installation artist based in the United States.
Statement:
The current underpinning of my recent work can be defined as a foray into the field of social sculpture, and social practice, through installation. In this approach I seek to charge my work through the direct engagement of environment and community. My intention is to reclaim the power of art by placing it directly within living environments, rather than keeping it sequestered to an artist studio, or only within the framework of a gallery.
This theoretical approach combined with a desire to use materials as they present themselves offers a foundation for the liberation of actions and formal concepts within my work. With inclusion of a community focus added to this mix a fertile ground for cultivation opens and in many respects engages a powerful frontier of Art: one that has a direct effect and presence in the contemporary world and also society at large.
CONTACT:
+001 413-931-1411
E-mail: verve007@gmail.com
GABRIEL EDWARD ADAMS
(Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae)
EXHIBITIONS (abbreviated, nondescript, chronological list)
year title, type, event, location
2011 Media Becomes US, video performance, Çanakkale Bianalle, Çanakkale, Turkey
2010 Ice Cream Mirage, traveling performance, Nomadic Party, ARKO, Seoul, Korea
2010 Trespassers, sculpture, Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Massachusetts
2010 Sub Sub, installation, Subdocmenta,Skenderija Olympic Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2010 Dear Broken Heart, installation, Turkish Cultural Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2009 For Your Use: Saws, installation, Canaan Downs Symposium, New Zealand
2008 Free House, time based installation, Milnthorpe Sculpture Symposium, NZ
2007 Exposed Land, painting, Seachel Art Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2006 Reflect, installation/performance Human Rights festival, Geochang, S. Korea
2006 Open to the Elements, painting/drawing, Seachel Art Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2005 Super Cheap, Consume, installation, Terminus Public Art Project, Dunedin, NZ
2005 Huri 0 Te Wai, drawings, The Stingray, Nelson, NZ
2004 No Man's Land, painting, Gallery 203, Arts Council, Nelson, NZ
2004 Spring Exhibition, drawing, The Refinery Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2004 Nun, drawing, The None Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2004 Last of the Golden Weather, painting, The Arc, Dunedin, NZ
2002 For Sight, sculpture, Thesis Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine
2002 #67, sculpture, Coaster Project, Trans-cultural Exchange, Global
2001 BFA Show, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
2001 Sticks: street collection, sculpture, Art Auction, ICA, Portland, ME
2000 Bird of Flight, student exhibition, Logan Gallery, Chautauqua, New York
1998 Landscape, Paintings, Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
1997 Cairn, Round Tower at The Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
EDUCATION and RESIDENCIES
2011 - 2002 Independent practice, international.
2002 BFA honors, sculpture, The Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, USA
2000 Chautauqua School of Art, Sculpture and drawing, Chautauqua, New York
1998 College of the Atlantic, Human Ecology, Bar Harbor, Maine
1997 Trinity College, Studies in Irish History, Dublin, Ireland
1997 The Putney School, Putney, Vermont
1996 Burren College of Art, Sculpture residency, Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare, Ireland
PUBLICATIONS (very abbreviated)
2011 ARTNEWS New Zealand, Autumn 2011 Magazine, Dispatch #1, p.82
“In with the whirl on the road to Urumqi” byPhillip Dadson (NZ).
detailsof Ice Cream Mirage discussed, http://www.artnews.co.nz
2010 SBS KBC South Korean Television Broadcasting. Nomadic Party, Interview.
2010 9 Dragon Head Symposium in Korea und China 2010
“Die Neun-Drachen-Köpfe und die Schweiz” by Annelise Zwes (swiss) www.annelisezwez.ch
2010 Boston Globe, ART REVIEW, 2010/09/19 (Full photo Trespasser is in print) “standing up to their surroundings, Famed sculptor's estate hosts a juried exhibit”
2010 The Hollow-dot com (korean journal, mention of work)
이야기가 있는 전시회…아르코 미술관, Normadic Party
2010 Sarajevo-x.com (Sarajevo, Bosnia) full story/interview with ‘lively’ comments.
Will forward translation of Dear Broken Heart on request.
“Amerikanac u potrazi za Sarajkom slomljenog srca”
http://www.sarajevo-x.com/bih/drustvo/clanak/100218014
2010 iBerkshires.com, “Great Barrington Artist Bringing Ice Cream to the Desert” by Nicole Dupont
http://iberkshires.com/story/35726/Great-Barrington-Artist-Bringing-