For Immediate Release:
Adamson Atelier                                               September 13th – October 26th, 2008                                                                                
Adamson Gallery is pleased to celebrate the beginning of the 2008 - 2009 season with a selection of works from Adamson Editions.  In 1993, Master Printer David Adamson purchased his first Iris printer, inaugurating one of the world’s first digital ateliers. Since that time, Adamson Editions has worked with some of the most important contemporary artists, including Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Lyle Ashton Harris, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Longo, Lou Reed, Mike and Doug Starn, Donald Sultan, Chuck Close, Bruce Weber and William Wegman.
This exhibition represents some of the newer work from Adamson Editions, including work from Chuck Close, Roni Horn, Victor Schrager, Adam Fuss, Jenny Holzer, iona rozeal brown, Renate Aller and Robert Rauschenberg. Like Adamson Editions, these artists take pleasure in combining traditional and groundbreaking forms and techniques. Together, these pieces show the extraordinary breadth of Adamson’s collaborations, as well as illustrate the way in which the atelier continues to make innovations in the exciting new field of digital printing.  
In two new untitled prints, Victor Schrager continues experimentation with color, light and texture in beautifully photographed images that verge on the abstract, calling attention to the liminality of their objects. The images recall the classic composition of still life, but bring the form into the virtual age.
The themes of composition and context are repeated in two new pieces from New York-based British artist Adam Fuss who continues to use daguerrotypic techniques in new and striking ways.  Fuss turns his camera on a swan and a caterpillar, recalling anatomical drawing with his unusual aerial perspective and highlighting the symmetry in their forms. The images are reproduced in large scale, overwhelming the viewer and emphasizing the unnaturalness of nature.  
Similarly, iona rozeal brown’s piece combines the old and the new. The triptych takes the form of traditional Japanese panel painting but shows its subjects, a man and a woman, wearing sunglasses, a bikini, and playing records. The effect is one that highlights a juxtaposition of modernity and antiquity, and some of its remarkable results.
The exhibition also features work from longtime Adamson collaborators Chuck Close, Roni Horn and Jenny Holzer. Chuck Close’s newest artist portrait is of Kara Walker, done in a photographic imitation of Walker’s own silhouettes. Roni Horn’s double portrait of a Snow Owl obscures the line between life and taxidermy.  Finally, the pigment print from Jenny Holzer of a projection on New York’s Rockefeller Center continues questioning and redefining the use of public space and the built environment.  
For more information, please contact Laurie Adamson or Erin Boland at (202) 232 0707.