wabi sabi : Portraits in evolution
September 18, 2017
The Golden Triangle | Chicago
Artist: Adam Siegel
Studio Director/Curatorial Assistant: Scott Renfro
Exhibition Photography: Adam Siegel
2017 RNDD Fall Gallery Walk After-Party
Adam Siegel premieres his new exhibition From the Wabi Sabi Series: Portraits in Evolution at The Golden Triangle.
As a featured artist for the River North Design District (RNDD) Fall Gallery Walk, a special celebration and program is planned for the opening night of Adam's solo show in collaboration with Vosges and The Golden Triangle with an exclusive ticketed after-party.
Chicago artist Adam Siegel is nationally recognized for the breadth of his work as an abstract painter and photographer. Known for his large-scale works, Siegel presents a soulful refinement to the contemporary category. Influenced deeply by his time in Japan, the artist merges two distinct sensibilities—East and West—with compositions that showcase an elusive and elegant balance of both.
While Siegel has spent the last 39 years traveling, collecting, and creating a powerful body of work influenced by the visual poetry and elegant simplicity of the traditional Japanese aesthetic, he is also an artist of the modern day. Siegel has been experimenting for 15 years with a proprietary system using capture technology primarily used for military intelligence. Employing new technology and drawing from his collected imagery, Siegel creates paintings and collages that lend emotional resonance to both eras. His works meld the Internet's ceaseless capacity to stream constant images, while echoing the authority of anonymous histories and lost treasures. Experience has allowed Adam to master a technique where there is no trace or residue of digital technology. His compositions bridge new to old, high to low, reverie to the achingly simple.
Receiving both a fellowship and grant from the Illinois Art Council, Siegel has exhibited in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. He has exhibited at Chicago’s Around the Coyote art festival for 18 years with sold out shows eight years in a row. In addition, Siegel has shown at Art Expo Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, SOFA Expo, and Chicago’s famed Merchandise Mart. His work has been featured in esteemed local and national media outlets including Art in America, New York Times, Antiques & Arts Weekly, Luxe Interiors + Design, Modern Luxury Interiors Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Where Magazine, Key Magazine, New Art Examiner, CBS, WGN, NBC, CLTV, and WBEZ.
