Relentless Continuity 2010 by John M. Adams

This video documents the destruction of my most recent site specific drawing, "Relentless Continuity 2010" on May 30, 2010 at the Adam Lister Gallery.

My site specific drawings are created on location, for that specific location. Typically, they only last for the duration of the exhibition, and are destroyed when the exhibition is over. As a result of this situation, the transitory drawings require the viewer to be in a specific place during a specific time period to experience the work first hand.

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Bill Solomon and John M. Adams performing Ghost Music, 03-15-2010

I posted video stills from the Ghost Music recording session at the Arlington Arts Center last week. Peruse my website here.

Site-Specific Drawing at the Adam Lister Gallery

This is one view of the site-specific drawing "Relentless Continuity 3/1/2010-3/11/2010" at the Adam Lister Gallery. The drawing wraps 360 degrees around the column, never allowing the viewer to see the entire drawing at once. Like most of my site-specific drawings it will also be destroyed at the end of the exhibition period (Currently the drawing will be on view for the current exhibition and perhaps extended into the next exhibition). Its about 8'x2'x2' and was executed with graphite. See more site specific drawings here.

Pardon the snapshot, proper high quality documentation coming later.

Drawings, Drawings, Drawings...

Drawing, drawing, drawing, drawing, and lots of it. That's what I've been up to in the studio and around town (Adam Lister Gallery, Ghost Music recording at the AAC). Here are some of the latest things from the last two weeks brewing in my studio. Pardon the poor quality photos, they were shot with my point and shoot camera.

Above is the start of a graphite drawing on a new surface - formica counter top - a new surface I am exploring for temporal site specific drawings, perhaps a whole room of this things is something I'm thinking about...

Here is the finished drawing. It no longer exists, I'm the only one who ever saw the actual piece... in the true spirit of most of my site-specific drawings I destroyed it. I washed it right off.

This is the beginning of another drawing, this one yupo mounted on a table top.

The finished drawing installed with some paintings in progress at my studio. This drawing was not destroyed and is available.

A detail from the above drawing.

More to come soon....

In Progress: Site-Specific Drawing At Adam Lister Gallery

I'm currently creating a site-specific drawing at the Adam Lister Gallery in Fairfax, VA. I hope to see you at the opening this Friday, March 12 2010 from 6-9pm. Press release for the exhibition "Unforgettable" is below:

ADAM LISTER GALLERYFEBRUARY 16, 2010
Fairfax Village Plaza
3995 Chain Bridge Road
Fairfax, VA 22030

PRESS RELEASE

UNFORGETTABLE

Group Show

Mar.12-Apr.18, 2010

opening reception:

Friday March 12, 6-9pm

The Adam Lister Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of "Unforgettable". This is a group exhibition featuring artwork that addresses ideas and concepts that have to do with time. As a practical matter, clocks and calendars regulate everyday life. Yet at the most primitive level, human awareness of time is simply the ability to distinguish which of any two events is earlier and which is later. We live in a reality that is dependent on measurements. Across all aspects of life, we measure quantities, weights, speeds, temperatures, sounds and times, constantly comparing one thing to another.

The concept of time can be discussed on several different levels: physical, psychological, philosophical, scientific, and biological. Every moment there has ever been and ever will be, every object, every thought and feeling, and every action and reaction all make up our own individual perceptions of time. The way the same subway ride can feel like no time at all one day, and seem to take forever another day, the speed of time is due to our reading of a sequence of events. The artwork in "Unforgettable", deals with natural human obsessions surrounding life, death, age, memory, structure, order, and freedom.

Artists: Diana Adams, John M. Adams, Susan Brown, Deborah Burdin, Sarah Burton, Donna Glubo Schwartz, Landon Jones, Adam Lister, Robbie Namy, Stephanie Rivers, Jamin Sheard, Chris Wise

For more info contact Gallery Director : Adam Lister

T# 646.263.7305

www.adamlistergallery.com

adamlistergallery@gmail.com
Fairfax Village Plaza
3995 Chain Bridge Road
Fairfax, VA 22030