Recent Oil Paintings by Caroline Adams

WHEN:     February 8 - March 16, 2013
                   Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 6 - 8pm

WHERE:   Susan Calloway Fine Arts
                   Book Hill, Georgetown
                   1643 Wisconsin Avenue NW
                   Washington, DC 20007

COST:      FREE

WEBSITE:  www.callowayart.com

Home will feature a collection of recent oil landscapes by Caroline Adams. Adams' paintings are developed through the visual memory of all the places she has traveled. Her hope and intention is that the paintings have a feeling familiarity to the viewer without pinpointing a specific place. Adams has recently returned from living in Ecuador, and will be off again next fall to Jordan. Whatever her location, however, it is in the act of painting her ambiguous landscapes that Adams finds a feeling of home.

Artist Statement:

A poet wrote that "a person who is at home with himself will find the universe home-like." When I paint, I draw on the memory of every place I have traveled and lived. Sometimes a glimpse of sky in a faraway place. Other times a field that I saw a thousand times as a child. The Greek landscape filled with light and islands, the mid-Atlantic countryside I grew up in, and, most recently, the cloud-filled mountains of Ecuador are the inspiration for my work. Soon the red deserts of Jordan will join the list. But these paintings are not a travelogue. I hope they are something more universal. I hope that these reflections of my visual experience will bring you, the viewer, to a place you remember, somewhere familiar. Painting these lines, shapes, and subtleties of tone brings me calm and peace. A sense that I am home.
          -  Caroline Adams

Caroline Adams received her BFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. She spent three years studying and teaching at the Aegean Center for Fine Arts in Greece. She has shown at numerous galleries worldwide including, Metaxa Gallery in Paros, Greece, Illeana Viteri Gallery in Quito, Ecuador, Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, Shelburne Art Center in Vermont, Hardcastle Gallery in Delaware, and most recently, Susan Calloway Fine Arts in Washington, DC.

Susan Calloway Fine Arts specializes in contemporary art by local, regional, and international artists, antique American and European oil paintings, and a carefully chosen selection of 17th-19th century prints. The gallery also specializes in conservation framing using archival-quality materials and techniques, and in traditional French mat decoration. The gallery provides extensive art consulting services for business and residential clients and collaborates with architecture and design trades.