The contemporary world is full of tensions, challenges, sociological complexities and psychological angst. One artist who is not afraid of reflecting this in his work is Adam Lupton.
Adam Lupton is a Canadian designer and artist whose depiction of reality seems like multiple moments colliding together to form one chaotic whole. What goes on in the mind and in the public sphere influence this dynamic. Each piece prompts us to question our " free will as well as our concepts of space, time, fate, and self; if every decision comes true in one parallel life or another, are we as free as we think we are ?"
Adam Lupton is a rising young talent who has a Bachelors of Communication Design from Emily Carr University or Art and Design (2010) and is currently enrolled at The New York Academy of Art for his Master of Fine Arts.
StepFeed tried to get into Adam's creative world by asking him a couple of questions:
How would you describe your approach to art? "I don't know if I have a specific approach, but if I had to put it in words I'd say concept-heavy and iterative. I start with an overarching idea I want to explore, something that resonates within me, and I'll work out the shape of that before I start going in to smaller and smaller chunks, exploring ideas for specific paintings that fit in with the larger whole of what I'm attempting to describe. For me, there should be something that all the pieces are talking to within a series."
, How does this differ from your approach to design (since you do both)? "My schooling in design has massively influenced my artistic pursuits, and vice versa. They differ in regards to their medium, and that one is much more personal while the other is client-based, but they share a lot of fundamentals: concept-driven, a lot of mind-mapping and sketching, and a ton of ideas that diverge and converge and diverge and converge. There's a surprising amount of writing in both processes for me." ,, ,Discover Adam Lupton's work: