06 ADAM HELMS

NFA Outpost, 2004,
ink on vintage paper, 16" x 20"

Adam Helms considers himself an ethnographer. Of his work he says, “with conceptual and formal ties to an assemblage of source material—photojournalism of contemporary conflict, war films, political propaganda, 19th century American art of the frontier, heraldry—my recent drawings depict a fully-realized yet unfamiliar world populated with…the artifacts of a sub-cultural pathology… I want the images to be both romantic and subversive; to remain cloaked in such a way that questions are raised within the viewer as to the perspectives on display.” The structure of a fallen saloon-type building with its rickety, wooded structure mimics the language of a minimalist or abstract sculpture. Helms graduated from Rhode Island School of Design and obtained his MFA from Yale University. He is represented by Sister in Los Angeles, where he had his first solo exhibition in April of this year.

courtesy of the artist and Sister,
Los Angeles
value $1,500–1,800