Paradiso: Adam Stoner Opening Reception

The  images in this body of work have grown out of a fascination with  architecture’s penchant to imitate and reinforce our deepest origin  stories. One part the book of Genesis and one part Italo Calvino’s  Invisible Cities, paradiso is an exhibition filled with walled gardens,  obsessive miniatures, and cities etched in stone. Drawing on the empty  architecture of the Romanesque and the barren cityscapes of Giorgio de  Chirico, these places speak a wordless language of entrances and exits,  alleyways and courtyards. This exhibition is also the premiere of new sand animations. In this  type of stop motion video, a camera is suspended over a light table  while the artist uses their fingers, brushes, or knives to sculpt a  drawing in layers of sand. Once the drawing is satisfactory, it can be  manipulated repeatedly to create a sequence; and with each successive  photograph, the medium appears to move and breathe.

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