Rob Adams in "Equine: A juried group exhibition", June 1 - July 16

Rob Adams, instructor in Art & Applied Design, has a collage piece in the "Equine: A juried group exhibition" at  Portlands' Froelick Gallery. The title of Rob's piece is "Horse with Mask". This group show runs from June 1 to July 16. There are two "First Thursday" opening receptions on June 2, 5-8 pm, and July 7, 5-8 pm. The show includes work from a number of artists, including Christopher Rauschenberg and Rick Bartow. The Froelick Gallery is located at 714 NW  Davis St. in Portland; it is open Tues-Sat 10:30 am - 5:30pm. Contact the Froelick Gallery at 503.222.1142 or FroelickGallery.com

In Formation: Anne Godfrey and Rob Adams, Nov. 15 - Dec. 2

The Lane Community College Art Gallery is proud to present “In Formation”, a two-person show featuring artists and Lane Community College faculty members, Anne Godfrey and Rob Adams. Anne Godfrey teaches photography and drawing and Rob Adams teaches painting and design within the Department of Art and Applied Design. The exhibition consists of both photography and painting.

When asked about what inspires her photography, Anne stated, “I drift with the camera, creating layered images while walking through both new and familiar places. These images transcend a static pictorial representation of landscape space creating a sense of movement and time, more closely representing my psychological and physical experiences.”

In discussing his approach to his work, Rob stated, “I distill images into simpler fields of color, reflecting the way art, through graphic design, has helped reduce the world into marketable products. The simplification of concepts into shared symbols and icons has always intrigued me. Humor and an appreciation of the absurd are vital to me.”

The show runs from November 15th through December 2nd. A lecture featuring both artists will be held on November 18th at 3:00 pm with a reception immediately following at 4:00.

The gallery is located in building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College, 4000 E. 30th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon. There is no charge for admission. The Art and Applied Design Department phone number is 463-5409.

Rob Adams - Collegium, Italy

Rob Adams, instructor of painting, drawing and design, attended the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Citta di Castello, in Umbria, Italy, July 9-31. The conference included sessions about aesthetics and the phenomenology of experience. Rob taught art lessons to conference participants and studied the work of artist Alberto Burri who worked in Citta. Adams received funding from the LCC Faculty Professional Development.

Check the Art & Applied Design's Flickr page to see photos of Rob in Italy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/laneccarts/sets/72157624668237719/

Rob Adams Travels to Italy in July

Rob Adams, instructor of painting, drawing, and design in the Art Department, will be traveling to Italy this July. Rob received funding from LCC Faculty Professional Development and will use this funding to "travel to the Collegium Phaenomenologicum in Umbria, Italy this July 9-31. I'll be attending conference sessions about aesthetics, phenomenology of experience, and other topics important to contemporary art, with top scholars in the field. I also am offering art lessons to conference participants during free times, as an adjunct to our discussions. Additionally, I'll have the opportunity of studying the work of artist Alberto Burri, who worked in town. The Burri Foundation offers extensive museum collections and archives of the artist's life and work. I plan to make works informed by his colorist collage aesthetic, both to display at the conference hotel, and at my faculty show in the LCC Art Gallery during Fall term, 2010. I expect the trip will make me a more valuable asset to LCC, broadening the knowledge and experience I am
able to pass along to my students." Contact: Rob Adams: adamsr@lanecc.edu

Robert Adams - "Landscapes" at Goldworks in March

Robert Adams, LCC art instructor, is having a solo art show throughout March at Goldworks Jewelry Art Studio. The theme of the show is "Landscapes from the Vermont Studio Center," where Adams had a residency in the fall of 2009, assisted by travel funding from the Art department.

The opening reception will be Friday March 5th, 4:30 to 7:30 pm, and is a stop on on the First Friday Artwalk. Adams will be there to talk about the work, with Kate Ali, LCC sculpture instructor, who is leading the art walk. There will also be wine tasting by the Sineann Winery that evening.

Goldworks is located at 169 E. Broadway in Eugene, Oregon. http://goldworksart.com/ Goldworks is open 10 am - 5:30 pm weekdays, and 10-4 on Saturdays.

The works depicted here are: Crane and Mill, Sandbag Weir, Construction Dam, and Rooftop before the Rain.

Rob Adams Paints Ballet Backdrop

Rob Adams, instructor of basic design and drawing, has painted the backdrop for Visions d'Amour: 10 Ballets in Paris, a ballet at the Soreng Theater at the Hult Center of Performing Arts, October 9-10.

Ballet Fantastique's critically-acclaimed chamber company presents a dramatic taste of Paris in ten short ballets. It's a don't-miss "tour en Francais," from operatic drama to the flair of the Moulin Rouge cabaret.

Eugene composer Jeremy Schropp and his live orchestra join Ballet Fantastique on stage in a ballet of sophisticated French frivolity, "Night at the Cafe Terrace." Van Gogh's painting, as re-envisioned by Northwest artist Rob Adams, lights up this nighttime Paris scene.

Visions of love will carry you from hauntingly beautiful operatic stories by Jules Massanet, Gabriel Faure, and Georges Bizet, to the playful "Papillion" (with guest pianist John Jantzi), and back to rosy Parisian romances with the music of French chanteuses Edith Piaf and Carla Bruni.

Rob Adams - Emerging Artists Portable Works Show

The Seattle Public Utilities - Emerging Artists Portable Works show will run from January 6 to March 31, then the works will be displayed on a rotating basis around public buildings in Seattle. The exhibit will be at the Seattle Municipal Tower Gallery, 700 Fifth Avenue, Level Three Concourse, in Seattle. The Exhibit will show 32 artwork by 24 emerging Northwest artists, including paintings, etchings, photography, sculpture, and mix media recently purchased by Seattle Public Utilities for its Portable Works Collection.

The Seattle Public Utilities has purchased one of Rob Adams paintings as part of their "Emerging Artists Purchase." The purchased piece, "Radula" is part of a series of that address theorists Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacans ideas on the construction of language, culture, and self. In a departure from Adams' previous works using fragments of found images, here he appropriated from parts of his own older works. "Radula" is taken from his 2005 painting "Strait." The title refers to a snails tongue, inspired by his undergraduate study of zoology, and is an embrace of the Rorschach Test effect of abstract paintings on individual perception.

For more information, contact Robert Adams at adamsr@lanecc.edu or the LCC Art and Applied Design office at 463-5409.

Rob Adams in "Around Oregon Exhibition"

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.