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① Artwork:
Stages of Fallout (bewitched, bothered and bewildered)
This work is part of a series titled Stages of Fallout that encompasses compositions on paper in graphite, charcoal and gouache. It draws inspiration from “The Family Fallout Shelter,” a manual distributed to the American public in the 1950s through the US Department of Civil and Defense Mobilization, which guides the process of building a fallout shelter at home.
This mixed-media drawing depicts a heart-shaped crater from which a black hole emanates, creating cracks across a graphite landscape. The artist forces the viewer to question whether this is an image of the ironic aftermath of a nuclear winter or an area where one can seek safety in wartime.
Adam Liam Rose explores architecture’s visual language of “safety” within a practice that spans sculpture, installation, video, and drawing. More specifically, the artist mines the difference between real life and the aesthetic tricks various authorities use to numb, soothe, or distract populations from actual or perceived disasters. Ultimately, the artist is drawn to the so-called promise of the architectural imagery of spaces like fallout shelters and how they get defined through our collective memory.
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③ Artist:
New York-based artist Adam Liam Rose explores architecture’s visual language of “safety” within a practice that spans sculpture, installation, video and drawing. More specifically, the artist mines the difference between real life and the aesthetic tricks various authorities use to numb, soothe, or distract populations from actual or perceived disasters. Rose’s large-scale installations act as imaginative stage sets for these incidents, while his drawings manifest the psychological and spiritual associations connected with them. Ultimately, the artist is drawn to the so-called promise of the architectural imagery of spaces like fallout shelters and how they get defined through our collective memory.
BIO:
Adam Liam Rose was born in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1990 and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL, in 2012 and his MFA from the Columbia University School of the Arts in New York, NY, in 2017.
Solo exhibitions of Rose’s work have been presented at The Java Project in Brooklyn, NY (2021) and Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, NY (2018). Group exhibitions featuring Rose’s work have taken place at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, NY (2021); Marinaro Gallery in New York, NY (2018); and The Jewish Museum in New York, NY (2016).
Rose was a fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Art AIM Program, the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program, and the Art & Law Program. He was also awarded artist residencies at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, NY (2022), the Fire Island Artist Residency in Fire Island, NY (2022), and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE (2018), among others.
Rose's 2021 publication, Between the Bars (Genderfail Press), can be found in the artist book collections at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt Institute, and The Frick Fine Arts Library in Pittsburgh.
This work is part of a series titled "Stages of Fallout" that encompasses compositions on paper in graphite, charcoal and gouache. It draws inspiration from “The Family Fallout Shelter,” a manual distributed to the American public in the 1950s through the US Department of Civil and Defense Mobilization, which guides the process of building a fallout shelter at home.More
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