L.A. ARTCORE PRESENTS
A SOLO EXHIBIT WITH BRIAN ADAMS
April 18-30TH, 2014
Reception – Sunday Apr. 19th
3 p.m. – 5 p.m. – Union Center
Conversation With The Artist Series: 4 p.m.
L.A. Artcore at Union Center for the Arts
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 13th, 2014) On the occasion of the publication of Brian Adams' book project entitled I AM ALASKAN, L.A. Artcore is pleased to present this special, two-week exhibit of Adam's photography in which he uncovers his native state as a site of vital sociological and environmental confluence and diversity among its inhabitants. Adams will present a selection of work that traces the numerous themes and threads that unite his body of work.
All photographs exhibited have been shot with a medium-format Hasslebad camera that Adams returns to while away from projects as a freelance commercial photographer, a realm that necessitates digital photography and media. Adams describes a depth and richness found within film's physical properties that goes otherwise missing while working in digital media. The artist is interested in capturing both naturalism in his subjects while using outdoor lighting techniques to further accentuate his subjects' environs. In Adams' series of works entitled Disappearing Villages, the artist casts Alaska as
both an outpost that is off the beaten path of American culture as well as a stomping ground of
happenstance cross-cultural interaction among its inhabitants. Having begun his interest in photography in high school by shooting his fellow skate and snowboarders, Adams revisits youth culture in his series SKATE, turning the lens dually on Alaska's contemporary skateboarders as well as the delicate bonds formed during one's youth. The urban environments and topographies that his subjects are enmeshed with are a consistent theme that underlies the artist's work as well as an ever-present humanity that finds the lives of his subjects poignantly entangled and interwoven in different aspects of Alaskan, American and human life.
Adams has exhibited extensively in the United States. He was recently featured in “Re/Marks”, a 2013 exhibition at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Adams has photographed for clients that included Getty Images, The Alaska Humane Society and State Farm Insurance. His work has been widely published in periodicals including The New York Times Magazine, GOOD, Newsweek Magazine and The Wall Street Journal Magazine. For more information on the artist visit, http://www.baphotos.com
Artist Reception:
Sunday Apr. 19th, 2014, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Conversation With the Artist Series at 4 p.m.
L.A. Artcore at Union Center for the Arts
120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
Gallery hours: 12-5 p.m., Wed-Sun.
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L.A. Artcore helps develop the careers of visual artists of diverse cultural backgrounds, bringing innovative contemporary art to the public, and provides educational programs by professional artists for people of all ages. For more information visit www.laartcore.org.
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