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the vineyards of Italy, Adams has a lot to tell us about these places, and also about his experiences there.
Adams has a convincing ability, with brush and paint, to portray the breezes that hit him, the shadows he watched shift while painting on location. His perspective ranges from ' expansive panoramas to inti' mate slivers of the landscape built of sparkling moments of color, shape, and shadow. Interestingly, some of the largest works (2x4 feet) have the most intimate subjects - a segment of giant redwood trunk in the foreground, a few yards of a stream, while some of the small. est pieces (measured in inches) ' contain a full horizon.
Adam’s love-affair with the ' landscape and his choice of composition communicate a strong reaction to what he has seen, and its attraction to him. The viewer knows what colors a summer sunrise over Venice presents, and can identify the same patterns in the randomly stacked hay of a Rappahannock field that caught the artist’s eye. The exhibition makes for a journey to the other-worldly hills of Meteora, Greece, and back ■ again to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Trained at the Minneapolis College of Art and design and at the American Institute in Southern France, as an officer in the United States Marine Corps Adams was recognized for his artistic ability and assigned as a Combat Artist. In 1992 and 1994, the Department of the Interior commissioned two significant collections of work from Adams who painted the back country and remote areas of the Grand Canyon National Park and Glacier National Park for their respective 75th and 85th anniversaries. Many of his paintings also have been chosen by the Department of State to hang in American embassies around the world through its “Art In Embassies Program.”
Adams currently lives in Washington, VA. where he and his partner Jay Brown own and run the Gay Street Inn. Long View Gallery in Sperryville represents Adams locally. His show at Gallery Plan B will be up through October 15, and some of his work can be seen on the gallery website: www.gallery planb.com.
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