Lisa Adams is
an artist of social conscience.
Not exact matches
With an interest in the thematic exploration
of self and other, present and past, identity and gender, the
artist explores the polarities
of the colonized self with a
social and political
conscience.
The hefty catalog traces the
artist's journey over five decades — evocative street photography, desolate Los Angeles cityscapes, color candids, still lifes featuring artifacts
of indigents — all joined by Hernandez's
social conscience and compositional grace.
With the
conscience of a
social realist, he painted as an Abstract Expressionist, drawing inspiration from a circle
of artists that included both Romare Bearden and Ad Reinhardt.