Kindness and the Opposite small Graphite on Toned Cotton Paper

Graphite on Toned Cotton Paper

Child-like subjects pluck at adult themes in paintings whose narrative provide all the answers one could expect to find on single page torn from a book

Jacqueline Gallagher "Painter of Zombies and the Disturbed

5 x 22 inches

Kindness and the Opposite small Graphite on Toned Cotton PaperDetails About Oil on canvas 11 x 14 in. 2020 Adam Caldwell's paintings and drawings juxtapose elements of abstract expressionism and classical figuration. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, creating layered collage drawings then oil paintings. His layered and fractured paintings evoke the tensions between mind and body, self and other, present and past. They also raise questions about the nature of identity, particularly