Adam Ball (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com

These paintings are grounded in a type of reality that is edited and pared down to sit somewhere between the experienced and the imagined. The comfort of familiarity is set against the uncertainty of another world. They are part of a recent series of work made from photographs taken in places that have an often-lost historical significance, or taken in the exact location where some sort of loss has occured. It is intended that the work feel isolated and detached. By applying thin layers of paint, to build up a colour surface intended to read as the history of its making, and create a tension with the subject matter.

2008, oil and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 75 cm

Nobody ever swam

Lake Whitehurst

Isolation 2007(detail) hand cut paper, 155 x 190cm

Born in 1977, Adam lives and works in London and has exhibited in galleries worldwide, including Gagosian Gallery, New York; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; Warehouse Gallery, Italy; Galerie Schuster, Germany; The Jerwood Space, London, the ICA, London, and the CCA, Glasgow. His work is included in many international collections, including the Goss-Michael Foundation and the Ross Perot collection.

Since the exhibition of The Tree, a 32-foot high painting in London’s Golden Square, solo exhibitions include Dirty Pattern, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, When we were Young, Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, and Graffiti Love, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas. He has also exhibited in London at Frieze Art Fair, Regent’s Park and the Jerwood Drawing Prize, in an exhibition that toured the UK in 2007-8. Other exhibitions included ScopeLondon 08; Promised Land, Warehouse Gallery, Italy, November 08 - January 09 and ArteFiera Bologna, Italy, January 09.

In 2009 a new series of 8 large white cut outs made in collaboration with L'Wren Scott for New York Fashion Week, and exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Inspired from images taken in the Taman Negara rainforest in Malaysia, the work measures a total of 7ft x 44ft. Following this, the work was exhibited at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.

The paper cut outs, in antithesis to the paintings, are derived from one sheet of paper and hand cut to expose the delicacy of the material and to create a delicate homage to an ephemeral world. Relying solely on the process of editing and removal, a plane of tranquil timelessness is created allowing the random effects of shadow and light to throw the work into a continually changing relief. The fleeting fragility of a moment in time is captured to slow and steady the gaze, revealing few signs of what went before it.

Adam Ball
London
United Kingdom
Europe

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Web Links
Warehouse Contemporary Art, Italy
Goss-Michael Foundation, US
Paul Kasmin Gallery, NY
Elle Decor, Adam Ball, 10.2006
Times Magazine, Trunk Calling, 24.08.2002
Gagosian Gallery installation video