New faculty member Robert D. Adams has his painting "The Long March" in the 6th "Around Oregon Annual Exhibition" at The Arts Center, 700 SW Madison in Corvallis. The show will run through October 30th, and the center is open 9:30-5 M-F and 12-5 Sat.
Robert is originally from Maryland near Washington, DC. He earned his undergraduate degree in Biology, and began painting inspired by southern folk art and DIY punk collage. After working on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and living for a year in Sicily, Italy, he has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1996. He earned his MFA in 2007 from the University of Oregon, with a Phillip Halley Johnson Scholarship and Ralph Baker Painting Award.
Robert's work has been included in over thirty exhibitions in the northwest and around the U.S., including shows at the Seattle Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery; the Viridian Artists Gallery in Manhattan; the Saville Gallery in Cumberland, Maryland; and the Roseville Arts Center in Roseville, CA. Jurors selecting his work have come from institutions such as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego; as well as from galleries such as Elizabeth Leach in Portland, Howard House in Seattle, and Charles Cowles in New York. Images of Robert's work have appeared in the Eugene Weekly, Seattle Weekly, Art Access, and Artweek magazine. His cartoons and illustrations have won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, and Student Affairs.com. They have been published by the Oregon Daily Emerald in Eugene, the Cass Lake Times and Northern Herald in Minnesota, and King Features Syndicate.
For more information, contact Robert Adams at adamsr@lanecc.edu or the LCC Art and Applied Design office at 463-5409.
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