Untitled Portrait (Vallegrande), Adam Helms, 2007. Double sided silk screen on vellum.
Adam Helm's recently had his first solo museum exhibition at the MCA, Denver. This strong show was comprised of an installation of new works on paper and a large-scale assemblage.
Loaded with political imagery, his work incorporates romantic subjects of revolution, war and the American West. He works from appropriated images of radical and extremist movements from around the world and combines them into loosely narrative works. His method of silk-screening on both sides of translucent vellum adds to the hallucinatory feel of the work.
Adam Helms was born in the United States in 1974 and currently lives and works in New York, NY. Helms received an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. He has shown in group exhibitions at Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Kunsthalle und Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY among others. Helms was the recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and was a recent artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
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