dams’ interest lies in paintings subjugation to the more effective modes of visual communication, such as TV and the media. After questioning how images are manipulated to create an artificial truth — the information deemed unimportant being discarded — Adams queries why we have created this hierarchy on the importance of information. Where does meaning lie within an image and who has the right to determine which information is pertinent?

Though the end product is painting, Adams takes polaroids from TV, cropping images to such an extent that any discernably recognizable information is obscured, raising the possibility that however severely an image is altered, it still contains its original meaning. He combines this with parts of discarded photographs or strips of film— information deemed unimportant — for his source material. These images are then combined to make a painting, using traditional methods such as glazing and scumbling to allude to the photographic quality of the source material. Yet the painted image is a slow laborious process, taking months to build up glaze upon glaze, thus inverting the apparent look of its immediacy. In this particular body of work he focuses on one of his passions; soccer. Any sporting event has an outcome which one is led to believe is undisputable, yet each individuals' perception is tainted by their viewpoint. Adams raises the question of how can we trust the media's perception of the truth when we can't even trust our own. The reason for resorting to painting as to opposed to merely collaging such information is simple. Painting is an imperfect recorder at best, therefore it continues to flourish and subsequently mutate. Its own ineptitude is its strength. It's the proverbial village idiot, simultaneously entertaining and dangerously erratic because the laws of societal convention do not apply. Ultimately, these are not paintings which purport to have an answer, they simply claim that maybe the question is the answer.

Jeremy Adams was born in Malaysia and moved to England as a child. He has lived and worked in New York for the last ten years, receiving his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 1991. Adams has exhibited at TZ’Art, Pamela Auchincloss, Bronx Museum and the Islip Art Museum. This is his first solo exhibition at the George Billis Gallery.