Adam Fowler (b 1979 Fairfax, Virginia), draws on multiple hand-colored sheets of paper with a gestural line before painstakingly cutting the negative spaces, the work is then constructed by layering the sheets of cut drawings together one on top of another. The polar actions speak to materiality and physicality of highly refined processes and long stretches of time. In relation to these works, he explains: "In these new works I'm introducing color as compositional elements and thinking about optical mixing, that is to say how our eyes mix color together while seeing. I have always been interested in line, movement, and space but while the introduction of color seems simple it has proven to change how I think about these ideas and put them into action in fundamental ways. This body represents some small scale, almost sketch-like approaches that act as exercises in how I consider material while the larger pieces are fully formed works that pull from highly refined processes and long stretches of time."
Adam Fowler lives and works in New York, having received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, in 2001. Fowler’s work has been exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the US including the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, Currier Art Museum, Manchester, NH, and at The Drawing Center, NYC among others. Fowler has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Drawing; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; and the Young Artist Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC. His work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the U.S.
