- untitled (white jar/video/pink) (2018)
- untitled (yellow fade jar/pink) (2018)
- former lowly technician designed for only one thing, crippled performing 2 minor acts (2016)
- former lowly technician designed for only one thing, crippled performing 2 minor acts (detail) (2016)
- Players now lost in a new history were brought from one oddly uncomfortable existence to a new oddly comfortable existence/the corridor of images is an endless scroll of purgatory filled with deathless inattention (2018)
- Players now lost in a new history were brought from one oddly uncomfortable existence to a new oddly comfortable existence/the corridor of images is an endless scroll of purgatory filled with deathless inattention (2018) video preview (looping gif)
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Adams Puryear explores the Internet’s flow of convoluted information and how tactile materials and different media can represent it. Experimenting with physical translations of the Internet’s anti-filter rabbit hole, Adams continues to return to the materials of ceramic and gypsum to create historically sedimented sculptural elements contrasting present-day electronic displays and dynamic materials. Obsessively grazing over electronic images of history and culture, Adams understands the Internet’s growth and its visualization of time as one slowly unfolding in a nonlinear and ultimately muddled formlessness. In much of his work an amorphous and colored blob, moving in-real-time from a ceramic container, becomes another dichotomy to the push-pull of digital-analogue, historical-new, formal-experiential oppositional elements in the work. Paradoxically it is this oozey blob — a material with a comparatively short lifespan and history that over weeks empties from the sculpture’s body and continues to change until it reaches a solid state — which slows down a viewing and resists a tidy resolution. This is the work’s answer to our culture’s continued acceleration.
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