Bio: Adam Linn (b. 1995 Pittsburgh, PA) is an artist working across drawing, painting and printmaking. Linn received a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2017) and an MFA in Visual Arts at SUNY Purchase (2024). He has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023, 2024); Marvin Gardens, New York (2023) and JPS Gallery, Hong Kong (2022) and has presented work in group exhibitions at Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT (2024); Plato Gallery, New York (2024); ps122 Gallery, New York (2024), Ortega Y Gasset Projects, New York (2023) Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022) and Martha’s Contemporary, Austin, TX (2022). He recently completed the Millay Arts Residency and the Macedonia Institute in upstate NY and is currently a Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Fellow for the year. Adam lives and works in New York.

Artist Statement: My work contorts realities of animate hybrids steeped in seduction. Through a ballooned and cartoonified visual language, I present exaggerated perspectives that upend sexuality, power, gender and representation. Forms pulse and undulate, thrusting themselves at the viewer with an audacious presence. Through drawing, painting and printmaking I enliven objects and animals that possess a near banal level of familiarity. These subjects are a crossbreeding of the strange and vulgar pockets of our deepest imaginations. This reality consists of coexisting contradictions: things that should be rigid appear elastic, smooth surfaces are textured in static, and compositions stretch like warm taffy. Voluptuous curves warp and bend at the borders while simultaneously pressing outward towards the viewer. Nothing appears straight—queerness exists with a turvy logic where life exists on the brink of recognition. The idea of straightness rolls in on itself, curling up like a spring waiting to explode.

Website: www.adamlinn.net

Social Media: @paris_of_appalachia