MARK ADAMS is a painter, printmaker, and a cartographer with the National Park Service based on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard since 1987. He exhibits regularly at The Schoolhouse Gallery where he has focused on works of art that use layered images of maps, personal notebook pages, text, data and images of animals and friends in light accumulation on paper and wood panels. Adams harvests the curiosity and wonderment of his viewers as source material and presents sustained looking and a little biology as a cool opportunity. Recent work includes paintings on Mylar of fishing lures and paintings of birds on wood that are part of an ongoing discussion in his work about things that imperfectly represent the real world in nature. He is currently working on a series of paintings of figures on canvas that concern the almanac of time reminiscent, and the medieval book of hours.
Adams has taught at the Provincetown Art Association, Castle Hill Center for the Arts (Truro MA), and the Provincetown School Academy program and as a guest in the MFA program of the Fine Arts Work Center/Massachusetts College of Art. He has studied ecology, landscape architecture, printmaking and photography at University of California, Berkeley, California College of Arts and Crafts and studied with artists at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He also worked as a wildlife field biologist, scientific illustrator, forest fire fighter, gymnastics coach. His current interests include geologic time, taxonomies, coordinate systems and layering of information in maps. |
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