Adam Chapman
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The Wrestlers
Acrylic and Ink on Paper
2024 - present

The Wrestlers embodies abstract concepts in compositions that are both figurative and abstract. Custom software pulls randomly from a folio of more than 1200 orignal drawings of found and generated imagery. These randomly selected original drawings are used as the source material to create the final paintings.



Portraits in Time
Oil on Linen
2022 - present

Portraits In Time captures overlapping memories.



Conversion Therapy
Oil and Acrylic on Linen
2018 - present

Conversion Therapy is a series of paintings and drawings capturing timeless relationships.



Canopy Paintings
Acrylic and Charcoal on Paper
2019 - 2022

A series of landscape drawings about loss.



Weak Forces
Generative Drawings on Paper
Custom Software & Display
2012

Weak Forces is a series of computer generated drawings on paper that examine various societal forces through their movement and reaction of colored lines. Because of the work's generative rules, no moment of the piece is ever the same twice.



Diagram of Chance and Will Intersecting
Generative Drawings on Paper
Custom Software & Display
2011 - 2012

A series of animated generative drawings in which abstract elements periodically resolve into figures, then dissolve away. Because of the work's generative rules, no moment of the piece is ever the same twice.



Diagram of Isolated Moments Forming a Memory
Generative Drawings on Paper
Custom Software & Display
2008 - 2009

A series of animated generative drawings in which abstract elements periodically resolve into one of 150 different portraits then fall away again, forming an endless cycle of coalescing and dissolving. Because of the work's generative rules, no portrait or moment with is ever the same twice.



The Starling Drawings
Video Drawings on Paper
Custom Display
2008

A series of moving drawings wherein every speck of gray is an actual bird. Together, the birds create dynamic, fluid drawings.