Bill Adams, Wayne Gonzales, Cameron Martin Paintings
October 27 - December 18, 2004
installation images selected works thumbnails
Press Release
This exhibition will feature one large recent painting by each artist. Adams' "Contestant", Gonzales' "Pentagon", and Martins' "Avid and Unrivaled" share a certain quality of landscape, but are distinctly different pictures built on their own internal logic. It is in the differences from one to the other that things are revealed about the individual works and their makers. The similarities in these artists are not in the paint, they are in the mechanism that makes them want to operate in the service of an idea where art and politics meet. Herein lie skepticism and a ripened awareness of corruption that is shared in these three paintings which reflects the current mood of the nation.
Cameron Martins' work was recently seen in the Whitney Biennial and at his second one-person show at Artemis, Greenberg Van Doren in February 2004. Wayne Gonzales is represented Paula Cooper Gallery and has an upcoming show at Patrick De Brock Gallery in Belgium. Bill Adams solo exhibition of paintings and drawings at KS Art in March 2004 received reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker.