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Dee Adams
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Biography
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Dee Adams' style has been described as contemporary bold minimalism with an edginess inspired by technology. Her travels throughout the South Pacific and to London and New York provide the inspiration for the bold and brilliant colour schemes in her pieces.
She reinterprets complicated images or objects by simplifying them down to basic colour and shape. She explains, "To me it's just a way of making sense of the things in my world at a time when we seem so deeply saturated and overexposed to media."
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Statement
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It can be argued that abstract art offers a more personal account of the artist; the work is a manifestation of the deeply personal and constructs an empathetic bridge to the emotional and intellectual perception of the audience. The abstract painter makes a critical assessment of the aesthetic conventions attributed to realism and seeks to mutate or evolve such conventions to establish a personalised view of the world. It is a synthesis of retinal properties (what is seen), emotional response (what is felt) and intellectual perception (what is thought) that provides the compositional structure.
Abstraction provides a forms of representation and expression that attempts to go beyond what is seen, stripping away recognisable form to declare a personal response to the world. Abstraction is the distillation of feelings, intuition and intellect to construct new visual forms. It celebrates the act of painting (and sculpture), where gesture, and colour and mark key elements of this visual convention. Abstraction is a visual language of the transcendental in which realism is negated in favour of a deeper representation of the world.
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Exhibitions
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April 2004 - Artworks Gallery, QLD
May 2004 - Agora Gallery, New York
June 2004 - Canvas Gallery, San Francisco
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Artist: Sean McHugh 
