ADAM VOID

In "A crowned bounty overflowing with abundance", Adam Void brings together as many elements of the curiosity shop as possible with hopes to show the viewer his full visual language, even if at times it sounds like speaking in tongues. The rough edges and simple mark-making reference generations of folk traditions while living vividly in punk, outsider, and street culture. The art feels contemporary while being well connected with the past. A lingering echo of isolated southern mountain life.

Adam's nightly practice of working in his studio borders on compulsion, with plenty of escapism and prayer mixed in. Late nights after work, in a small structure that has been continuously under construction since 2018, located at the edge of the Pisgah National Forest. It might be quick drawings with oil bars, china markers, and ball point pens, or it might be collaged scrap paper and assorted junk culled from the "archive" bin, filled to the top with finds from many years ago. Large freight train moniker paintings on drop cloths with mop handle scroll-like hangers, tiny found object sculptural combinations line bookshelves while books sit in stacks nearby. Distorted cassette tapes played through busted speakers. A bear rustles through the trashcans.

Bio

Adam Void is a mid-career artist who takes a multidisciplinary approach to the divine practice of creation. His work speaks from dedicated experience in the worlds of Do It Yourself, mail art, zine making, freight train riding, and lo-fi noise. Adam revels in the isolation resulting from a rejection of contemporary culture.
He is blessed to have shown his art all over the world and to have any audience at all.
Adam lives with his wife and daughters on the edge of the wilderness outside of Black Mountain, North Carolina.