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Jamie Adams



Jamie Adams works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, and photography. His figurative work functions as personal memoir and addresses social themes of identity, memory, and desire. Characters in his work probe contemporary notions of identity, proposing the self as imaginary, constructed through language, or from images elsewhere. He draws on the cinematic culture of the 1950s and ‘60s, using montage and celebrity personae to insinuate conditions of disturbance, flux, transience, or a state of becoming.

His work is in the collections of the Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Museum of Modern Art Library, MOMA Wales, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Research Library, Woodmere Art Museum, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. His work has been cited in Art in America, Bulletin du Musée Ingres, and the book Fragonard: Regards Croisés. He is represented by Jonathan LeVine Gallery, David Klein Gallery, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Philip Slein Gallery, Sirona Fine Art, and Lamensch Douglas Fine Art.

Adams graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University with his BFA in 1983, and he earned his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2000.


Work by Jamie Adams

Three standing and two seated figures by a cloudy beach. The standing figure in the middle is standing on one leg on his tip toes with hands above his head. The standing figure on the right holds a tiny notebook as if writing in it.

Bubba Bebop, 2022

Oil on linen
78 x 72 in.
A seated figure holding a book curled up in a chair sleeping with two heads peeking from the back

Jeannie Blue Shirt, 2022

Oil on linen
36 x 32 in.
A seated figure dressed in a white shirt and brown jacket and pants. A small dog is perched on the figure's arm looking away

Jeannie Pink Chair, 2022

Oil on linen
36 x 32 in.
Seated figure looking at us wearing a large brown jacket holding a red shirt close to their chest

Jeannie Four Roses, 2022

Oil on linen
45 x 30 in.
Two figures looking at us. The adult has their fingers crossed and the child is leaning on the adult while holding a flower

Joannie Pair, 2022

Oil on linen
36 x 32 in.
A figure with long hair blowing in the wind holding a piece of fabric to their chest

Meg Red Green, 2022

Oil on linen
30 x 24 in.
A child-like face on a body wearing business attire

Painter Boy, 2020-2022

Oil on linen
30 x 24 in.
Close up of monochromatic painting of a face

I See You Close Up (Jeannie Blue) , 2022

Oil on panel
11 x 14 in.