"Grey One Size", 2020, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Grey Two Sizes", 2020, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Repeat Rewind", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Repeat Rehash", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Turn Standard", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Turn Stagger", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Grey Standard", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Grey Stagger", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Twist Six Colors", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Twist Five Colors", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Wrap Six Colors", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Wrap Five Colors", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Exed Red", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Exed Yellow", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Brushstroke Light", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Brushstroke Dark", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Fours Light", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Fours Dark", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Kyo Light", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Kyo Dark", 2021, oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
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"Diagram 1", oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Diagram 2", oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Diagram 3", oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Diagram 4", oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
"Diagram 5", oil on canvas, 30" x 24"
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"Square 1", oil on canvas, 12" x 12"
"Square 2", oil on canvas, 12" x 12"
"Square 3", oil on canvas, 12" x 12"
"Square 4", oil on canvas, 12" x 12"
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Adam Erlbaum

Philadelphia, PA

Résumé

Artist Statement

Adam Erlbaum jokes that his Journal series is a "Topological Hooked on Phonics." Accordingly, his 5-by-6.25-inch sketches begin with word fragments or short words. Erlbaum works on a 30-unit-high by 24-unite-wide grid. On canvas, this most easily translates to an eight-wide by ten-high grid of 3-inch squares. Erlbaum prepares canvases the day before with a heavy, even wash of color. He then divides the canvas into equal quadrants and grids out each one separately. This practice reduces bowing when drawing lines with a stretched canvas with a ruler. Erlbaum programs his brush-hand through repetition, learning sequences of marks. Finally, he performs these sequences in each finished work.
The series title, "Journal," comes from a writing critique Erlbaum received. He was told he had written, "a journal not a memoir." Erlbaum proceeded to write a journal, on canvas, to be viewed as a painting. In his previous "Letter" series, he employed letters and even words. Despite this, Erlbaum still had the sense that he was making "normal paintings." The high color and high energy of the Letter series did not distract from the fact that the letters and words were strictly dependent pictorial elements. The role of the letters and words is what, for Erlbaum, defines the Journal series. In the Journal series, the words and letters read independently, while cooperating pictorially.

Artist Biography

Adam Erlbaum received a BA in Mathematics from The Colorado College in 2002. He has attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of the Arts, and the MFA program at the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. Erlbaum has exhibited in Philadelphia, Aspen, South Carolina, and St. Louis.He paints at The Mill Studios in Philadelphia.

Education

2017 - 2018
Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
General Education Non-Degree Art Classes
Studied under Kassam Amoudi
2014
Gotham Writer's Workshop, New York, NY
Non-Degree Student
2012 - 2013
Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT
MFA, Visual Art
Studied under Humberto Ramirez and Nils Karsten
2003 - 2005
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
General Education Non-Degree Art Classes
Studied Color with Patrick Arnold
2003 - 2005
Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
General Education Non-Degree Art Classes
Studied with Mimi Oritsky and Kassam Amoudi

Professional Experience

2006 - Present
Adam Erlbaum Studios, Philadelphia, PA

Exhibitions

Group
2021
New Now IV, The InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Viewpoints 2021, Studio Montclair, Montclair, NJ
The Text and Visual Language Exhibition, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO
Juror: Tate Foley
2020
Disentangled Yesterday, InLiquid at The Yard Center City, Philadelphia, PA
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Bower Center for the Arts, Bedford, VA
Juror: Deborah McLeod
31st Annual Juried Competition, Center for the Arts, Rock Hill, SC
Juror: David Detrich
2013
Shipley School Alumni Exhibition, Artists' House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Other
2018
The Mill Open Studio Tours, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibited paintings
2008
US Bank, Aspen, CO
Exhibited paintings
2004
I Brewster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibited Paintings
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