Video artist and painter Adam Chapman seeks to merge contemporary technology with the traditional medium of drawing to explore the dynamic formation of imagery through seemingly arbitrary patterns.
His “Starling Drawings” pull together the simplicity of observing birds in flight and the natural phenomena of the starling flight pattern.
He has worked as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and has had work featured in exhibitions at the American Museum of the Moving Image (Queens, New York), Fundacao Armando Álvares Penteado (Sao Paulo, Brazil), and Carnegie Art Center (Buffalo, New York), among other venues.
He received his B.A. in aesthetics from University of Redlands and his M.F.A. in writing from New School University. Chapman grew up just outside of Honolulu, and now lives in Los Angeles. He has taught at Yale, NYU, and Parsons New School for Design.
At MacDowell, he finished two generative video installations: Legible Nature; Fate is an Afterthought, and Diagram of the Dynamics of the Physical Embodiment of Desire.
Recent shows include a solo show at 911 Media Arts in Seattle, and group shows at Fundacao Armando Álvares Penteado in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Pilar and Joan Miro Foundation in Mallorca, Spain; Kasia Kay Art Projects in Chicago; Wynick/Tuck Gallery in Toronto, Canada; and the Carnegie Art Center in Buffalo, NY.
