Adam Feibelman

Artist at large Adam Eli Feibelman, originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1997. Honored with the California College of Arts in Crafts’ Yozo Hamaguchi scholarship, Adam pursued a double major there in illustration and printmaking. Degree in hand, Adam went on to develop a mode of working all his own, in multiple-layer hand-cut photo-realistic stencil paintings. A hallmark of Adam’s artistic efforts is the palpable evolution in his process. Thus, over time, the tools of his trade became the focus of his work, sewing together and assembling the paper stencils to make abstractions of the images he had painted. His stencil assemblies continue to be exhibited nationally and internationally, then his freehand paper cut work has met critical acclaim and led to several years of public and private commissions and acquisition by The de Young. In the meantime he has started exploring other modes in artistic expression. Nature and raw data are two sources of inspiration for his abstract field paintings of repeating and layered colorful patterns on canvas and window screen. Well versed in layering from his years of stencil and spray paint work Adam has simplified his tools to basic shapes to forge a new body of work that shimmers in its encapsulation of light, air, and space. His work makes microcosms which depend on one's binocular perception of earth and its systems from an individual view standing somewhere familiar and looking at something foreign.

“My work is all about research and discovery, experimentation and practical application. For me art is the ultimate act of self-determination, I am lucky enough to come to my studio everyday and solve questions of expression, whether it's my own question, or taking on the questions of others. I am deeply fascinated by the challenge of expanding on the potential of a flickering synapse and how to bring it to full illumination.”