Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

7 x 9 x 3 inches

CA119

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

7 x 9 x 3 inches

CA145

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

16 x 23 x 8 inches

CA195

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

5 x 8 x 6 inches

CA066

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

34 x 22 x 6 inches

CA097

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

34 x 22 x 6 inches

CA088 

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

20 x 11 x 5 inches

CA065

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

10 x 22 x 7 inches

CA067

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

10 x 8 x 6 inches

CA068

Untitled (green brown), 2015

ceramic

10 x 10 inches

CA070

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

6 x 6 x 4 inches

CA069

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

10 x 10 x 6 inches

CA075

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

ceramic

21 x 11 x 5 inches

CA076

Christopher Adams

Untitled, 2015

Ceramic

8 x 12 x 8 inches

CA078

Christopher Adams: Primordial Garden

October 8 – November 7, 2015

This immersive ceramics exhibition by contemporary artist Christopher Adams comes on the heels of a major installation at Harvard University this past spring.


New York, NY (CHELSEA) Garvey|Simon is pleased to announce Christopher Adams: Primordial Garden, an installation of new, wall-mounted ceramic sculptures. This exhibition reveals the artist’s brilliant glazing techniques, filling the gallery with plant-like biomorphic abstractions of all sizes, reflecting Adams’s scientific background in biology, zoology and medicine.


The Opening Reception will take place on October 8, 6-8pm. The artist will be present. RSVP to Henry Jones at henry@garveysimon.com. (Members of the Press welcome without reservation.) The exhibition will run through Saturday, November 7, 2015. 


ABOUT THE SHOW


Christopher Adams creates sculptures that play on biological concepts, specifically adaptive radiation, whereby a pioneering organism enters an untapped environment and then differentiates rapidly without departing too much from its original form. His sculptures suggest varieties of creatures, but not necessarily a specific organism.  Many works in the exhibition, Primordial Garden, are suggestive of plant life with leafy tendrils and frayed edges. The installation implies a Darwinian evolution, with the creatures fewer in number and larger in form than in his previous shows, the largest approaching 3 feet in length. 


Christopher Adams merges his deep understanding of biology and ceramic surface to create a variety of ever-evolving finishes on his sculptures. A sense of play is ever apparent in the work (what the artist calls “promiscuous glazing”) as he manipulates the colors and textures of his ceramic organisms.


ABOUT THE ARTIST


Christopher Wade Adams began experimenting with ceramics in high school. He has developed a richly varied series of abstracted biomorphic forms. Each series grows out of an evolutionary process parallel to the science that informs his work. By continually recombining forms and experimenting with glazing beyond traditional ceramics practices, Adams has created a remarkable body of work that breathes new life into an ancient medium. Creeping tendrils, twisted leaves, cartilaginous growths, and knotted rock shapes inhabit the walls with a beautifully primordial presence.

 

Adams made his public debut at the Scope New York art fair in March 2006 to rave reviews and a sold-out booth. In reviewing the fair, Ken Johnson of The New York Times described Christopher’s sculptures as “wonderfully delicate, spiky objects that look like specimens of underwater flora and fauna from another planet.”


The artist’s recent exhibition at Harvard University, Life or Something Like It, included 1,000 works. The artist’s Summer 2013 exhibition at Greenwich House Pottery (where he did a 10 month residency) also included a vast amount of work, installed floor to ceiling along a 25’ wall.

 

Christopher Adams was born in Medford, MA. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College where he majored in organismic and evolutionary biology. In 2004 he graduated from Columbia University of Physicians and Surgeons. His dermatology practice is located in Boston.

 

This is Christopher Adams’ fifth solo show in New York and his first with Garvey Simon Art Access.

 

 

Press

Adams Ceramics, Flora and Fauna Eliza Jordan
16 Aug 2016
Adams Breathes Life into Ceramics Alexandra Alexa: Artsy Editorial
5 Nov. 2015
Adams Primordial Garden in Bloom Mayer Rus
16 Oct. 2015
Primordial Garden at Garvey|Simon Downtown Magazine
9 Oct. 2015
Immersive Ceramics at Garvey|Simon Garvey|Simon Staff
8 Oct. 2015
Christopher Adams on 1stdibs
Christopher Adams on Artsy