Wayne Adams is a Brooklyn based painter and photographer who received his B.F.A. from Calvin College and M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000. Adams has exhibited throughout the Midwest, New York and Vienna, Austria. Recent shows include, "A Strange Place," Alogon Gallery, Chicago (2008); "Really?" New York Center for Art and Media Studies, NYC (2007); "The Submissions Show" Sarah Bowen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2007); and "Select III" WPAC, Corcoran, Washington, DC (2004).
Adams is the co-founder of umami clothing company and will be teaching a class this fall at Parsons The New School for Design on design and social responsibility.
New Year, New York, New Art . . .
It’s interesting to note how, during the holiday season, when retailers are bending backwards to catch every potential shopper with any technique possible, the gallery district in Chelsea had only a smattering of open galleries on the weekend after New Years’. While they did swing back in full force over the next two weeks, if you didn’t know better, you probably wouldn’t think much had changed. Perhaps it hasn’t. Maybe art galleries are just a different kind of retailer.
On October 29, 2008, I ate meat for the first time.
A walk through some of the most talked-about openings in the New York art world this fall.
It took courage on Castleman’s part to organize a show that exposed both himself and a number of his friends to the scrutiny and criticism of a traditionally secular industry that tends to react against rather than promote religious work. For me, the dialogue that surrounded the show was more significant than the fact that I had work hanging in it.
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