Armory Art Center

Jamie Adams

My artistic impulses have led me to the solitary processes of drawing and painting and the strategy of figuration.  Modes of expression, such as these, which advance notions of authorship and singularity, while requiring a great deal of attention to craft, can serve aptly as markers for desire and loss.

The work is generated from things that I enjoy looking at: bodies, women, my wife and children, other paintings, and film. It functions as a transcription of my most intimate impressions from life.  Partly as personal memoir, the work exists as a vain attempt to record and come to terms with reality and recapture something of what has been lost.  With boundaries blurred between past and present, self and other, the work problematically teeters between public confession or a perverse form of entertainment.

A recent series of “jeannie” paintings are based on the Euro-American film Breathless (A bout de Souffle by Jean-Luc Godard).  These works, confined to small, private spaces, present simple themes of love and desire; proposing an inaccessible, yet jouissant vision invaded by the artist.

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