artist: Adam Sabolick

Artist: Adam Sabolick
Exhibition: Artificial Environments
Media: oil on canvas
Gallery: Max L. Gatov Gallery
Website: AdamSabolick.com
Instagram: @adamSabolick

This weeks artists is Adam Sabolick a student of the school of art focused on painting and drawing. Based on his Instagram he paints abstract and realistic paintings. He also has an appreciation for nature in both his paintings and home.

This particular piece, The Evening light (symmetrical murder) has mellow colors transitioning from the bottom to top. From a purplish blue to a mellow purple to then a yellow background. The birds have a symmetrical placement that is dictated by the middle of the canvas. All birds are black which makes them look all the same.

Speaking with Adam I started to understand what he felt toward nature and that it should be appreciated more. I saw how the symmetrical placement of the birds was very unnatural. This spoke to our attempts as humans to paint nature in a perfect manor to suit ourself. This highlights the contradiction of pleasure and anxiety Adam told me this painting speaks on. Where he purposefully made the birds symmetrical and very similar. The pleasure of having nature our “way” while it distances away from our natural appreciation that we are torn away from in a city.

I have to agree with the artist as I believe nature should be appreciated for how it is not how we want it to be. I may find myself buying more plants as the artist says he does for his home. To remind me of nature in a man made city. I really enjoyed the formal beauty of this piece and even more knowing what it means.