Adam Friedman

With a Generous Allowance of Time

1/8/2010 - 2/13/2010 at Eleanor Harwood Gallery

Opening Jan. 8th ’10 7-10pm

About Adam
Adam works with painting, collage and screen printing to create images of catastrophe and geologic emergence. Adam was born in Nevada in 1983, and currently lives and works in San Francisco, Ca. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute graduating with an MFA in 2008.He has been active in the San Francisco art community since graduating, and has participated in numerous group shows. He is a currently an Artist in Residence at San Francisco's Root Division and teaches class there too.

Artist Statement
In his book, Basin and Range, John McPhee explains, "If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time." I prefer to view the world from a geologic assimilation of time. The human understanding of its duration is skewed and relative to our experience and mortality. On a roughly 4 billion year timeline of Earth's history, the human inhabitance is barely even visible. Needless to say, the Earth was here long before humans, and will be here long afterward. I believe that for human beings to think we have the power to completely destroy the Earth is an expression of our vanity and arrogance. Words like "apocalypse" or "doomsday" have inherent religious connotation and suggest that the end of the world coincides with human extinction... But the Earth will go on with or without us, and I take comfort in that fact. Through all of the damage that human beings inflict on the earth (and therefore each other), nature will recover.

In my work I attempt to visualize the imperceptible geologic process by compacting millions of years into a single moment. Rocks bend and grow. Entire mountains crumble in an instant. And the environmental damage that human kind has left in their wake has long since healed. I'm drawn to how geologic processes (erosion, orogeny, etc) relate to our institutions (financial, governmental, etc). I strive to present an era that defies human intervention in the landscape. An optimistic view of the natural world, post human presence.

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1295 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 867-7770

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