Adam Lowenbein - Aviary

Adam Lowenbein

My Paintings are room-sized evocations of escape and illusion. I work to transform my daydreams into large-scale paintings that I can physically interact with, creating a bridge between my internal and external selves. My work is painted on Tyvek, wood panel and canvas. I work with interior house paint as well as traditional oil paint, a combination that gives me a shorthand way to play with flatness versus illusion, and explore the edge between the commonplace and fantasy. I sometimes incorporate objects, furniture and fabrics as additional painting materials- painting on them, sewing them, or just using them as-is to further establish a feeling of place. I shop for imagery online, both for pictorial inspiration and actual items with which to “furnish” the paintings. Images pile up and overlap, technique and intuition tangle in effort to establish the sense of being somewhere. At the same time, I develop an impression of myself in relation to each picture- how would I dress there, what would I be doing there? In these paintings, I’m attempting to depict a blurred boundary between my spiritual limitlessness and the hard surface realities of the world around me.