Of Water and Spirit: New Paintings by Patrick Adams
February 10 - April 1, 2012

Opening Reception for the Artist, Friday, February 10, from 5 to 7 pm
Gallery Hop Reception, Friday, February 17, 5 to 8 pm

Please join us for a reception for the artist on Friday, Feb 10, from 5 to 7 pm to see "Of Water and Spirit: New Paintings by Patrick Adams," an exhibition of eleven, new large-scaled paintings that are inspired by Adams' observations of the light, color, and forms found in the surface patterns of water on creeks and streams.

Like his previous work, these paintings are rich, shimmering responses to Nature and all its mystery and beauty. The new paintings, however, created over the last year or two, reflect a major shift in Adams' focus. Close range and abstracted depictions of water have replaced his spacious views of land and sky, identified by a horizon line. He interprets and transforms the closely observed phenomena of water in the natural world, creating thickly painted, multi-layered, colorful, and luminous paintings. His mastery of the sensual texture and color of oil paint is wonderfully evident. Adams explained he's evoking "a world, at once shadowy and glittering, where spirit and matter meet."

Patrick Adams earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in 1992. He teaches in the Art Department at Asbury College and at Eastern Kentucky University. Adams' work has been included in exhibitions at several galleries and museums throughout the region, and he shows his work regularly in Chicago and Nashville. He has twice been awarded the prestigious Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and his paintings are in many private and corporate collections across the United States. He resides with his wife Terre and their children in Nicholasville, Kentucky.

We will also have a new group exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by artists represented by the gallery.

Please contact the gallery or visit for more information about the artist.

Painters: Patrick Adams, Gary Bower, Nancy Fletcher Cassell, Cole Carothers, Gary Drake, Susan Dygert, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Evan Fugazzi, Robert James Foose, Ulrike Hahn, Georgia Henkel, Carolyn Young Hisel, Lennon Michalski, Mary Newton, Juan Rojo, James Shambhu, Valerie Shesko, Bill Santen, Karen Spears, Lina Tharsing, Robert Tharsing, Ann Tower, Sharon Weis, Judy Wells, and Daniel Werner

Sculptors: Stacey R. Chinn, Judith Pointer Jia, Janet Neuwalder, Geoff Smith, and Travis Townsend

Photographers: Carolyn Courtney, Ed Lawrence, Guy Mendes, Mary Rezny, and Mary Tortorici Folk artists: Minnie Adkins, JoAnn Butts, Lonnie and Twyla Money, and Dolly & Guy Skaggs.

The gallery, in the Downtown Arts Center, 141 East Main St., Lexington, KY, 40507, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 am - 5 pm; 10 am to 2 pm Sundays; and with extended hours during special events and theater performances. For more information please contact Jenny or Lina at (859) 425-1188.