max l adams

Max Adams is a practicing artist from the American Midwest. He spent his formative years in the Detroit metropolitan area, as well as near Chicago where he pursued an undergraduate degree in fine arts and crafts. His professional career has been spent in the ceramics industry, especially production pottery and manufacturing in Asheville, NC. A persistent and nagging repeat-use injury, however, has influenced a pivot away from the sculptural arts and closer towards his long-standing practice in illustration.

His studio work is pictorial, though it shares the potter’s same concerns for volume, repetition, and an ethos of craftsmanship. These images are rendered predominantly with graphite pencil. He also frequently employs watercolor, printmaking, and animation techniques. Thematically the work is concerned with mechanics of motion and time. The compositions are reiterative; the compositions are sequential. This encompasses both figurative and abstract design approaches alike.

Over the past several years Max has been working and studying abroad in Europe and the United Kingdom. He spent two years in Madrid, studying the art of the Spanish masters, i.e. Goya, Velázquez and Cotán. And most recently he has moved to London to begin an MFA program at the Royal College of Art.