Adam Lovitz

2017

9" x 7"

Found paper, found mineral (schist), acrylic paint on cardboard.

https://www.adamlovitz.com/

Artist statement:

This is a collage made in the mix between working on paintings. It is using acrylic paint and a mixture of found minerals(schist) collected at the Wissahickon woods, which is typical in my work. Yet, for this piece I embedded a found image from a faux finishing book that my mother gave me. The piece takes on the form of a terrestrial relic, and the embedded image serves as an ancient alchemical step to create a universe.

Artist bio:

Adam Lovitz is a Philadelphia-based artist. His paintings and assemblages meditate on the entropy found in both nature and city spaces. Departing from a familiar origin and moving through an in-between state attracts new relationships and layers dynamic histories. This breakdown, or reimagining, of material is ripe with possibility for Lovitz to ruminate on the interconnectedness of life on this planet. This translates into a material impulse that builds toward terrestrial relic and alchemical investigation, whether sourced from personal or found detritus, or layered and excavated in paint.

Select venues that Lovitz's work has been exhibited includes Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Space 1026, Fjord Gallery, Marginal Utility, Tiger Strikes Asteroid PHL, The Woodmere Art Museum, all in Philadelphia PA; Spring/Break Art Show, NY; Trestle Gallery, NY; The Painting Center, NY; Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Anderson, Richmond VA; Harpy Gallery, Rutherford NJ; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington DE.

Lovitz's art has been reviewed in Huffington Post, Two Coats of Paint, the ArtBlog, & Title Magazine.

Lovitz is a professor of Drawing and Art Seminar, and currently teaches at Tyler School of Art in Foundations, and Rowan University. Since 2016, he has worked on the art installation team at Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. He has been a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid since 2018.

Lovitz earned his MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012. He received his BFA in Painting from University of Delaware in 2008.