"Through canny foreshortening tricks, Adams makes the constructions feel as if they hover above the viewer. The vinyl and canvas paintings look crumpled, floating, ripped from the illusory contraptions. Here, the artist employs a clever inversion. The billboard constructions are usually solid and unchanging, but here they are ephemeral and will disappear after the show is over. The ads are quick to rotate in real life, but their physicality in the exhibition is much more pronounced. We are allowed a peek into many different fragments and textures, an ornament here, a piece of a letter there, pulled together by force of duct tape. Energetic lines of black, blue, and white direct our gaze through the works’ surface, sometimes resembling a fire exit scheme in their immediacy. " Read more
January 27, 2024
