"Waylaid" by Phillip Adams - Gallery Exhibition First Friday Opening Reception

GALLERY Land Collective is proud to present our October exhibition, "Waylaid" by local visual artist and muralist Phillip Adams! Join us Friday, October 4 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm for the opening reception opposite David Rubin's Antique Garden Tool Collection, with implements spanning the 18th through the 20th centuries.

"With overtures to the climate crisis humanity faces, this work straddles the weight of rapidly changing environments with playful moments of seeming whimsy. While shrouded in a fragile balance between play and responsibility, these works are intended to inspire the complexity of emotions facing our way forward, as playful elements float, fly, or inhabit these landscapes giving rise to feelings as varying as loss to wonder."

ARTIST BIO

Phillip Adams is a visual artist and muralist based out of Philadelphia, PA. For over 25 years, his studio work has been exhibited at a range of venues including Woodmere Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA), Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), Arcadia University (Philadelphia, PA), Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA), West Chester University (West Chester, PA), and Moore College of Art (Philadelphia, PA). His most recent solo show opened last fall at Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ), where he also created a permanent mural to be a part of their collection on the outside of the museum. He was a 2020-21 fellow with the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (Philadelphia, PA), and his work is in private collections spanning New York, Arkansas, California to Tokyo. He has been featured or reviewed in The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, La Presse (Montréal), and Dolce Vita Magazine (Canada) among other publications.

Adams’ public art practice has spanned over 20 years, focusing on a range of artist driven projects to community based art processes. His murals are featured nationally and internationally including Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Memphis, Salt Lake City, Montréal, and Munich. He has worked with clients including Starbucks, Rag and Bone, Domain Companies, and U.S. Federal Government, and has collaborated with arts organizations including Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, ArtWorks (Cincinnati), and MU (Montréal).

Adams received a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania.