Adam Vinson - March 17-31, 2018

ADAM VINSON Artist Name

(American, b. 1988) Title Oil on Canvas __ x __ Inches

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“Song & Dance” March 17 - 31, 2018

Born in Wilkes-Barre, PA in 1978, Adam Vinson began his formal training studying commercial illustration at Luzerne County Community College. There he befriended a young instructor whose invitation to pursue a more comprehensive examination of drawing and painting transpired into a three year course of instruction under the tutelage of Anthony Waichulis. Upon finishing the curriculum, he enrolled in the storied Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His experiences within those halls broadened his appreciation of the artist’s capacity for innovation beneath the weight of a dense and capricious art history.

Having achieved recognition as a still life and trompe l’oeil painter, Adam’s symbolic interplay of contemplation, humor and irony became a distinguishing hallmark of his early oeuvre. But his deference for what he regards as the “fickle nature of the muse, who may whisper in an ear one moment and stomp on a toe the next,” has encouraged him to explore the profundity of each picture in the absence of a genre’s directive.

Adam’s work has been featured in publications including American Art Collector, American Artist, Southwest Art, Stroke of Genius and American Arts Quarterly. In 2009, Vinson was the recipient of the third place award in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. In 2016, he accepted the honor of third place in The Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition.

Adam Vinson currently lives and paints in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Song and Dance” enters the English lexicon around the 1870s, referring to a type of vaudeville act in which performers would open with a song and end with a dance. The acts became second nature for the performers, essentially going through the motions with a repetition that prompted a suspicion of duplicity from the audience. Hence, the idiom is born and the actual meaning buried under a bed of cynical connotation.

In this exhibition, the paintings showcase subjects engaged in a variety of activities, from labor to leisure, metaphorically relating to dance or music. I have spent the majority of my time rehearsing the act of painting, my personal “song and dance”. In deference to my own inescapable ability to make connections between random discourse and the lyrical and musical information that is stored in my memory, many of the works are inspired by titles or lyrics of particular musical arrangements through which emotional or nostalgic imagery may be conjured.

- Adam Vinson, 2018

“Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days” Oil on Canvas 40 x 40 Inches

“Do-Si-Do to Midnight” Oil on Panel 24 x 54 Inches

“Canaries” Oil on Panel 24 x 30 Inches

“Electric Ave” Oil on Panel 26 x 24 Inches

“Life is a Banquet” Oil on Panel 26 x 24 Inches

“Parades Go By” Oil on Panel 20 x 20 Inches

“The Reminders” Oil on Panel 20 x 16 Inches

“Captive Audience” Oil on Panel 16 x 20 Inches

“Same as it Ever Was” Oil on Panel 16 x 20 Inches

“Blue Boy” Oil on Panel 18 x 18 Inches

“Plenum” Oil on Panel 9 x 12 Inches

“In Pursuit” Oil on Panel 10 x 9.5 Inches

“Young Pioneers” Oil on Panel 8 x 8 Inches

“In Midstream” Oil on Panel 8 x 11.5 Inches

“Temptation” Oil on Panel 8 x 10 Inches

“Miss Heather Rosemary Sewell” Oil on Panel 7 x 10 Inches

“Ik-Ook, North Star” Oil on Panel 9.5 x 6 Inches

“Portrait of a Lady” Oil on Panel 8 x 6 Inches

“Madeliene” Oil on Panel 9 x 5.25 Inches

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