Grounded in technical mastery, the Poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely.
Combining these two views--one that looks at the painting and another that looks around it--his Poems affirm the artist\'s insights into the complexity of being human..
He also goes within and beyond these works of art to explore characters set in the present-day museums, from a bored docent to a misinformed "explainer" of an artwork\'s meaning.
In this series of ekphrastic works, Adam Vines explores themes as varied as exile, family, disease, desire, and isolation through an array of twentieth- and twenty-first century painters, including Picasso, Hopper, Rothko, de Kooning, Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Artschwager.
Grounded in technical mastery, the Poems in Out of Speech address issues both universal and timely
