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Artist Statement

I am concerned with revealing, through perspectival exploration, the hidden architectures constructed by light in nature. The natural object and landscape are technically recorded and manipulated to make apparent the chromatic registres and the trajectories of light that, because of its constructive actions, escape the human eye. The nature so deconstructed is then transposed in painting. Detail is rendered only insofar it is a lighted surface. Different tones of the same colour help create depth that challenges, from a distance, the decorative appearance of the painting.

My art reminds the viewer that interpretation is always dependent on, and secondary to, the complexity of the order it discusses. In nature, harmony is not always apparent, even for the trained eye. Every day, I feel compelled to reveal the beauty that light puts, second by second, into the landscape or into the most common of flowers, making them unique. I offer not landscapes, but visions of transitory structures. The constant movement of light generates grandiose designs that make palpable their instability, challenging the representational arrest.

 

 

Bio

Anthony Adams was born in 1962. His early interest in art was stimulated by his paternal grandfather, a self-taught Irish painter with an exceptional eye for volume and contrast. Adams completed his MFA at the University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and then spent a year studying perspective at Delft and Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited in individual and collective shows in Europe, Canada, and the USA. Adams lives in Toronto, Canada since 2001.

 
 
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