Lot 189 - Adam Dix - Untitled (2)
Ink and Oil Glaze on Paper
2022
A6 (15x10cm) Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
ARTIST INFO
About
The work of Adam Dix (b.1967) explores the history of transmission, and wrestles with components of contemporary communication. His work brings together a world depicting community and ritual, whilst traversing the landscape of analogue and digital medias through a blend of traditional folk customs, religious ceremony and contemporary communication.
Coupling the contemporary instant-ness of a screen shot, with the slower historic ghostly feel of lithography, Adam Dix’s work is concerned with communication through the ages, the constant effort of humanity to come together, share, inspire, pass on our narratives. Humanity has communicated for millennia through illustrations, rituals, customs, choreography, music, writing, religion and symbolism in an attempt to understand one another. Pilgrimages to sites both known and unexpected are suggested in Dix’s paintings, religious ceremony is referenced. Costume, disguise and the borrowing and interpretation of symbols are prevalent. Timeframes are indistinct, in Dix’s work the present assimilates the residue of the past, we are left contemplating whether a scene is contemporary or historic.
Education
2009 – M.A. Fine Art Wimbledon College of Art
1990 – B.A. (Hons) Graphics and Illustration. Middlesex Polytechnic
SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS:
2020 - bo.lee gallery at London Art Fair 2020, bo.lee gallery
Papyrophylia, Charlie Smith Gallery
2019 - bo.lee gallery at London Art Fair 2020, bo.lee gallery
2018 - In Search of the Author, Zedes Gallery, Brussels
bo.lee gallery at London Art Fair 2020, bo.lee gallery
2016 - New Paintings, Slete Gallery, Los Angeles
All are Welcome, Eleven, London
Yesterday’s Prophets, Eleven, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 - In Residence, Griffin Gallery, London
Relics from the De-Crypt, Gossamer Fog, London
2016 - Telling Tales, Colleyer Bristow, London
2015 - BFAMI Contemporary Art Auction, Sotheby’s, London
The Mdina Biennale, Malta
Strange Cities, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens and New York
London Art Fair Project Space, The Contemporary London, London
2014 - 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Christies and Beers Contemporary, London
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Lawrie Shabbi, Dubai
2013 - Salon 10. Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
Ici Londres, Galierie Silin, Paris
News From The Sun, Phoenix Art Centre, Exeter
2012 - Editions, Other Criteria, London
Programming Myth, Sumarria Lunn, London
Unobtrusive Measures, Kunstpavillion, Munich
On The Horizon, New Generation of British Painters, Marine Contemporary, Los Angeles
2011 - Fraternise, Beaconsfield Gallery, London
Exam, Transition Gallery, London
2010 - Transmission, Haunch of Venison, London
Keep Me Posted, Julia Royse, London
2009 - Black Dog Yellow House, Trolley Gallery, London
Gallery Representation
Candida Stevens Gallery in the UK, Zedes Art Gallery in Belgium and Obsolete in Los Angeles.
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