All Artwork by brian11adams

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A Little Black Dress can get a girl into so many places, but it can't always get her out. Dimensions: 24" long x 14" wide x 9" high. This piece was included in the 2012 annual exhibition.
Barbiturate Barbie and the Bottomless Bottle
Bicycle wheel, clothes pins, laminated cards. This piece fuses the fond childhood memory of exploring my hometown on a bicycle with my adult experience of a cross-country bicycle trip. As a boy, my friends and I would use a clothes pin to affix a baseball card to the bicycle frame such that a slap-slap-slap would be created with each momentary contact of the passing spokes in the spinning wheel--one of the signature sounds of summer. As an adult, I kept a journal of a two-wheeled trip from Utah to New Jerse
Spoke 'n' Words
Bicycle wheel, clothes pins, laminated cards. This piece fuses the fond childhood memory of exploring my hometown on a bicycle with my adult experience of a cross-country bicycle trip. As a boy, my friends and I would use a clothes pin to affix a baseball card to the bicycle frame such that a slap-slap-slap would be created with each momentary contact of the passing spokes in the spinning wheel--one of the signature sounds of summer. As an adult, I kept a journal of a two-wheeled trip from Utah to New Jerse
Spoke 'n' Words (detail)
Paper and crosses. Prints of Russian religious edifices printed on assorted types of paper. Dimensions: 50" high x 39" wide
Unorthodox Russian Churches
Paper and crosses. Prints of Russian religious edifices printed on assorted types of paper. Dimensions of full piece: 50" high x 39" wide
Unorthodox Russian Churches (detail)
Wood, framed photos. A triptych of painted wood containing an ethnographic collection of Russians primarily from the 19th century. Photos are artificially tinted. Paired with another triptych, Russian Gallery 2. Dimensions: wings 52" high x 15" wide x 1" deep; centerpiece 52" high x 30" wide by 1" deep
Russian Gallery 1 (triptych)
Wood, framed photos. A triptych of painted wood containing an ethnographic collection of Russians primarily from the 19th century. Photos are artificially tinted. Paired with another triptych, Russian Gallery 2. Dimensions of full piece: wings 52" high x 15" wide x 1" deep; centerpiece 52" high x 30" wide by 1" deep
Russian Gallery 1 (detail)
Wood, framed photos. A triptych of painted wood containing an ethnographic collection of Russians primarily from the 19th century. Photos are artificially tinted. Paired with another triptych, Russian Gallery 2. Dimensions: wings 52" high x 15" wide x 1" deep; centerpiece 52" high x 30" wide by 1" deep
Russian Gallery 2 (triptych)
Wood, framed photos. A triptych of painted wood containing an ethnographic collection of Russians primarily from the 19th century. Photos are artificially tinted. Paired with another triptych, Russian Gallery 2. Dimensions of full piece: wings 52" high x 15" wide x 1" deep; centerpiece 52" high x 30" wide by 1" deep
Russian Gallery 2 (detail)
Acrylic paint on canvas. Dimensions: 48" high x 36" deep
Sub Cyril
Jigsaw puzzle pieces (from the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover) and marker-colored drawings of assorted beetles mounted on tiny springs that vibrate when stimulated. Dimensions: 36" high x 26" wide (in frame).
BTLS
Acrylic paint on canvas. Contains a poem (disguised as graffiti) I wrote following a visit to a particularly unsavory men's room in an unremembered library. The urinal is based on the fine fixtures in the men's room at the Museum of Printing History in Houston, Texas. Dimensions: 18" high x 14" wide
Library Bathroom
Acrylic and feathers on a mirror. Dimensions: 33" high x 39" wide.
Magpie
Acrylic and feathers on a mirror. Dimensions: 33" high x 39" wide.
Magpie (detail)
Charcoal on paper. Dimensions: 25" high x 20" wide
Still Life with Coat, Purse, and Shoe
Watercolor on a series of glass panes. Panes are arranged one behind the other. Inspired by a visit to White Sands National Monument in Alamogordo, NM. Dimensions: 10.5" high x 12.5" wide by 2" deep
Sunset at White Sands
Acrylic paint on canvas, with assorted plastic. Inspired by floating ice in the bay near Whittier, Alaska. Dimensions: 24" high x 18" wide
Ice
Acyrlic paint on canvas. Inspired by a helicopter ride over the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Executed in topographical relief style. Dimensions: 12" high x 12" wide x 1.5" deep
Lava
Pastels, markers, and assorted media on canvas. Dimensions: 36" high x 48" wide.
Fall
Pastels, markers, and assorted media on canvas. Dimensions: 36" high x 48" wide.
Fall Redux
Mixed media. One person's favorite things... Dimensions of full piece: 26" high x 36" wide.
Eyes
B'Arby