Michael Adamson
Michael Adamson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Michael Falconer Adamson June 30, 1971 Toronto, Ontario |
| Education | Ryerson University, Canada Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada |
| Known for | painter, sculptor |
| Spouse | Nicole Katsuras |
Michael Adamson (born June 30, 1971)[1] is a Canadian painter, known for a style that blends landscape with abstraction.
Biography
Michael Adamson was born in Toronto and studied art at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. In his third year, he studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany where he became fascinated with Gerhard Richter, as were other painting students.[1] His breakthrough as a painter in Canada came in 1998 when he started to compose paintings in which he used grids to mirror the material of the canvas.[2] His painterly signature is composed of discs of bright pigment applied to brilliantly hued canvas.[2]At first influenced by modernist painters, such as Hans Hofmann and Richter, he became in time an abstract painter using ideas of landscape with horizon lines and configurations that could be read as water and skies.[3] His work was described in the Globe and Mail as paintings that "hover...between abstraction and landscape".[4]
At the end of the 1990s, he began to show his work in vacant properties around Toronto.[4][5] These “pop-ups” were artist-run centres which presented shows of new artists.[5] From 1998 until 2008, painting became for him an 'open country' to which he applied different approaches in composition and application. The Open Country series (2008) included 150 canvases completed over a five-month period.[6] A later series was called Open Road.[7]
Adamson's works have been included in shows at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick (Goop, Guck, And Globs: The Materiality Of Paint, 2012);[8] the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (12 Trees, 2015);[9] Thompson’s Galleries in London (2016);[10] and the Couture Galleri in Stockholm (2016).[11] In 2020, his solo show Abstraction in the Extended Field took place at the Art Gallery of Northumberland in Cobourg, Ontario.[12] In 2021, a new series of paintings were exhibited in a solo exhibition at Thompson’s Galleries in London, UK.[13] In 2022, his work was shown in a solo exhibition at the 13th Street Winery in St. Catharines, 0ntario.[14]
Public collections
- Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario[15]
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia[16]
- Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, Ontario[17]
- Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB[17]
- McIntosh Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario[18]
- Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario[19]
- Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Unionville, Ontario[17]
References
- ^ a b Murray 2008, p. 22.
- ^ a b Murray 2008, p. 24-25.
- ^ Dault, Gary Michael. "Thundering across the spectrum". www.theglobeandmail.com. Globe and Mail, December 1, 2001. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
- ^ a b Dault, Gary Michael (December 26, 2000). "Visual arts: Three to watch". Globe & Mail. p. R3.
- ^ a b Kelley, Deirdre. "Michael Adamson is the king of pop-ups". www.theglobeandmail.com. Globe and Mail, March 12, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ Murray 2008, p. 9.
- ^ Goodden, Sky (2018). Michael Adamson: Open Road Paintings (2016-2018). Toronto: MFA Group. ISBN 9780981111612. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
- ^ "Goop, Guck, And Globs: The Materiality Of Paint". Beaverbrook Art Gallery. 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ "12 Trees 2015". Gardiner Museum. 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ Adamson, Michael. "Michael Adamson". Thompson's Gallery, UK. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ Adamson, Michael. "Exhibition". Couture Gallery, Stockholm. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ "Michael Adamson: Abstraction in the Extended Field". Art Gallery of Northumberland. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ "Michael Adamson alla Thompson's Gallery di Londra". Architectural Digest Italia (in Italian). June 28, 2021. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
- ^ "St. Catharines winery to host art exhibition". www.stcatharinesstandard.ca. This Week. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
- ^ Adamson, Michael. "Christmas in Gokarn, 2009". tms.artgalleryofhamilton.com. Art Gallery of Hamilton. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ Adamson, Michael. "Homage to Riopelle, 2001". collections.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca. Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ a b c Gooden 2020, p. 193.
- ^ Adamson, Michael. "For the Kids Room, 2006". mcintoshgallery.pastperfectonline.com. McIntosh Gallery, London. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
- ^ Adamson, Michael. "A Mystic Along, 2008". rmg.minisisinc.com. Robert McLaughlin Collection, Oshawa. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
Bibliography
- Goodden, Sky (2018). Michael Adamson: Open Road Paintings (2016-2018). Toronto: MFA Group. ISBN 9780981111612. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
- Murray, Joan (2008). Open Country: Michael Adamson Paintings (2008). Toronto: Panda Group. ISBN 9780981111605. OCLC 715232999.
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