Recklessly Optimistic - a solo exhibition by Adrian Hatfield

Adrian Hatfield makes work addressing his anxiety about our current environmental crisis, balanced by hope that humanity can rise to meet the challenge.
The paintings convey those experiences in tension: dread, splendor, joy, terror, wonder and the absurdity
of human inaction. Their iconography samples and ?recombines elements from art history, scientific
illustration, pop culture and satire, with a goal of
existing somewhere between a requiem, a science
fiction fever dream, and a call-to-arms.

Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 13, 6-8:30 p.m.

Closing Reception:
Saturday, August 31, 6-8:30 p.m.

Gallery Hours:
Saturdays 12-4 p.m.,
or by appointment

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Cover image: The Midnight Sun, Adrian Hatfield

Adrian Hatfield received his B.F.A. from The Ohio State University in 1996 and his M.F.A. from Ohio University in 2003. Hatfield’s works are included in the public collections of The University of Michigan, The South Bend Museum of Art, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, and The University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland. Solo exhibition venues include The South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend IN, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University and the Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ. Two-person and small group exhibitions venues include The Butcher’s Daughter, New York, NY, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, New York, NY and Jack the Pelican Presents, New York, NY. He has been a member of the faculty at the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI since 2005.

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