Adam Padavano

2010-02-16T16:21:00.000-05:00

Nature Business

2008-03-26T13:47:00.001-04:00

Nature Business
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New Blog

2008-02-26T19:24:00.003-05:00

Hi. I am now posting at a different address. If you want to see what I am doing, click on the link, and i'll see you there! Thanks!

cat playground

2007-07-18T09:42:00.000-04:00

acrylic and ink on card board, 10"x7",2007.

2007-07-18T09:34:00.000-04:00

Recently completed acrylic/mixed media painting on canvas(detail and mini-detail), 4'x5', 2007.

I mix colors and often share them in a bunch of concurrent paintings. The pallate determines a lot of the more recent work. I will be including a document of the back of the canvas, which is titled: Man Playing Guitarron.

Color Bars

2007-03-08T13:38:00.000-05:00

rolls of backdrop paper. 2002.

Yellow Series

2007-03-07T13:15:00.000-05:00

leaves

roots

hairs

blogospheres

8.5"x 5.5" in k on yellow card stock.
Adam Padavano 2007.

2007-03-07T12:10:00.000-05:00

Seaside Heights, NJ. 1967.
Same location as "Plane Down", which was taken in 1983.

Plane Down

2007-03-07T12:05:00.000-05:00

2006-12-31T01:26:00.000-05:00

2006-12-31T01:12:00.000-05:00

cloudscape

2006-11-30T20:03:00.000-05:00

oil on 2x6. 2006.

boomerang cloud

2006-11-16T17:22:00.000-05:00

dinner with gramma

2006-11-16T16:54:00.000-05:00

we listened to a festive song collection in the recreation room. She drew turkeys with the outline of her hand, drawing faces on the thumbs.

architect

2006-11-16T16:45:00.000-05:00

eleven eleven. smoke signal, or flag, or call, skull, spirit, on steep hill, lone psych hosp.

chess piece(detail)

2006-11-16T13:01:00.000-05:00

tempera and ink on newsprint. 2002.
A suggested stretch for those who can levitate.

skullheadscocoon

2006-11-16T12:54:00.000-05:00

cluster, made with a cartridge pencil which loads like a gun.

pearahshoot

2006-11-16T12:50:00.000-05:00

Special thanks, Danny Aiello.

infirmary

2006-11-16T12:26:00.000-05:00

I recall one of my first realizations of my own innevitable death was while watching a film called Uncommon Valor, which starred Gene Hackman as the father of a Vietnam War POW. Somehow the experience blended with the many hours of MASH reruns. The images of American warriors attempting to rescue an American prisoner in what was a dirt chamber barred-up with bamboo. An organic subterranean jail cell. Crude, but resourceful were the Vietcong.
The cliche sequence that stays with me is one where one of the more haggard of the rescue team finds himself atop an "eagle's nest" tower, with machine gun and firing away, and subsequently is shot in the trachea, as if the enemy were his throat surgeon. It was a clever camera trick, splicing the frames with before and after pseudo-bullethole application. Clearly, that guy wasnt going to come back home. At this point, the prisoners had been retrieved, and the team was making its way to the helicopter, through swaying wheatfields. They carried the wounded and malnourished over their shoulders. Almost everyone makes it to the chopper, but one is wounded by enemy fire. A passenger attempts to reach him, but someone, maybe Hackman, pulls him back, probably saving his life.
The loneliness of a foreign land is bad enough. I can't imagine being an enemy as well.

oaktag triptych

2006-11-10T13:22:00.000-05:00

I cavity
II smoke rings
III good guys off the grid

Green pen on oaktag 8"x10" each
Each time I scanned these, the image got thinner and thinner.

octo

2006-11-10T13:05:00.000-05:00

Things happen in threes, sometimes fours. I really enjoy watching PBS nature programs. The one i saw last night followed a colony of fire ants that had to relocate due to flooding, and formed a liferaft from its own citizens, carrying the queen, larva, grubs, etc. It reminded me a lot of Werner Herzog's Aguirre the Wrath of God.

travelcycle: working title, previously a fuzzy bike

2006-11-10T12:56:00.000-05:00

I am thinking of starting a series of work based on psychiatric facilities. Specifically, the ones that are long retired and overgrown with greenery and vermin. Somehow an old bicycle with an old brown suit case suits the story of the inner journey of a patient's mind. Also, Denis Hayes, thank you for suggesting to scan this, the digital camera was really blurry.

briefcase bicycle blurry

2006-11-05T16:36:00.000-05:00

truck

2006-11-05T16:30:00.000-05:00

Patrick all clean

2006-09-28T16:51:00.000-04:00

Patrick ran away twice. The second time was on Christmas Eve, 2005.
This is his second comeback.

SUSTAINANCE TAXi

2006-09-28T16:43:00.000-04:00

In reference to the inhalation of water. Floodlights on vehicle shine on mirror in bathroom of the self-hydrating head. Other attempts osmosis.

female face

2006-09-28T16:35:00.000-04:00

Actual size of a fictitious persons head.

grape grid

2006-09-28T16:32:00.000-04:00

A study in the green and red. Equally tasty.

hand-held side a

2006-09-28T16:13:00.000-04:00

see previous entry for additional information.
The story of the child clown. Born with small rubber sphere for a nose. Usually will pose facing west, rarely forward, occasionally 3/4. A large proponent of the hybrid playground game, horseshoe hopscotch, which his indigeounous people have played for millenia.

hand-held, side b

2006-09-28T16:06:00.000-04:00

Recently given to the Hayes', in Detroit, Michigan. Side b is a mini-pageant of characters who represent their own childhood imaginations.
On holidays like Halloween, whatever conception arrives, becomes his or her visual, tactile, sensory reality for that period. Luckily i avoid copyright infringements because these individuals were raised without television, and appear to be non-commercial fantasy creatures.

pianista! early edit, full

2006-09-28T16:00:00.000-04:00

The quasi-disemboweled, orange-shoed, elastic female with communication-cloud prefers to play her midi-piano in plain air, on the upperlips music stand. A stormy atmosphere brings lethargic anti-yogi in indian-style sitting pose, whose caption once stated,"Deed for the day is done, expect a reward."

The mammal stays in the picture.

pianista! detail, early edit

2006-09-28T15:36:00.000-04:00

I have added and subtracted a lot of the imagery seen above. The deer-like animal, the grass and sky only remain, so far.

civil libation

2006-05-22T15:22:00.000-04:00

Lena Vasselli (on right) October 1965

2006-05-16T12:17:00.000-04:00

mole trap. tempera on paper 2005

2006-05-12T11:09:00.000-04:00

race ink on paper 2005

2006-05-12T11:07:00.000-04:00

jesse! ink on paper 2005

2006-05-12T11:05:00.000-04:00

garlic popcorn ink on paper 2005

2006-05-12T11:04:00.000-04:00

four trees 2005 ink on 8.5"x11"

2006-05-12T11:02:00.000-04:00

re-entry, 2005 ink on inkjet print

2006-05-12T11:00:00.000-04:00

exquisite corpse (cheat) 2005

2006-05-02T15:24:00.000-04:00

hoofy

2006-05-02T13:29:00.000-04:00

jesse hamerman's iwillhearyoudotcom page drawn upon by adam padavano 5/2006

2006-05-02T13:03:00.000-04:00

Pay attention to white light. acrylic on chopping block 2004

2006-04-18T15:40:00.000-04:00

Prime Minister of Child Safety. acrylic and oil on plywood 2004

2006-04-18T15:35:00.000-04:00

did you hear about the new chess piece? ink and tempera? on newsprint, installation view 2002

2006-04-18T15:23:00.000-04:00

popcorn depot (birdfeeder) 2002

2006-04-11T12:46:00.000-04:00

my ladyfriend franky

2006-04-10T15:50:00.000-04:00

my man patrick

2006-04-10T15:45:00.000-04:00

independent wallpaper

2006-04-10T15:34:00.000-04:00

2006. 24.5"x11.5" mixed media on paper on plywood

2006-04-03T15:21:00.000-04:00

GW3x,2006. Various inks on 8.5"x11"

2006-04-02T22:49:00.000-04:00

nuclear plant memory study. in progress

2006-04-02T22:43:00.000-04:00

oil on wood, in progress

2006-03-30T11:24:00.000-05:00

espresso side b. 2005. 8.5"x11"

2006-03-30T09:20:00.000-05:00

four in progress. 2006

2006-03-30T08:53:00.000-05:00

in progress,2006

2006-03-30T08:49:00.000-05:00

wound, view two. 2003

2006-03-30T08:47:00.000-05:00

games side b. 2005.

2006-03-30T08:26:00.000-05:00

games side a. 2005.

2006-03-30T08:22:00.000-05:00

espresso side a. 2005. 8.5"x11"

2006-03-30T08:15:00.000-05:00

2005. 8.5"x11"

2006-03-29T22:46:00.000-05:00

2005. ink on paper. 8.5" x 11"

2006-03-29T22:34:00.000-05:00

HheartRT 2005. ink on paper. 8.5" x 11"

2006-03-29T22:29:00.000-05:00

2005. ink on paper 8.5"x11"

2006-03-29T22:26:00.000-05:00

turtle poop 2005. approx. 10"x10"

2006-03-29T22:19:00.000-05:00

2006. ironic burglar 4"x 6"

2006-03-28T17:36:00.000-05:00

Playground Face. 2005.
pen on college ruled? paper.
8.5"x11"

2006-03-28T17:33:00.000-05:00

2005. collage and drawing on newsprint. Approx 8"x11"(side B)

2006-03-28T17:29:00.000-05:00

2005. collage and drawing on newsprint. Approx 8"x11"(side A)

2006-03-28T17:25:00.000-05:00

2005. Tempera on manilla. Approx. 8"x11"

2006-03-28T17:16:00.000-05:00

2006-03-28T17:08:00.000-05:00

2005.collage on newsprint approx. 8"x 11"

2006-03-28T17:03:00.000-05:00

2003 Puppet parts(looking right):primed and unprimed canvas, 'hand' is stuffed with cat hair.

2006-03-28T16:59:00.000-05:00

2003 Puppet parts(looking left):primed and unprimed canvas, hand stuffed with cat hair.

2006-03-28T16:42:00.000-05:00

Here are some new additions to my soap collection.

2006-03-28T16:22:00.000-05:00

Artist:Desiree Leary . 2002? 5"x6"x3/8".Acrylic or oil on plywood.
(theres a hidden image in here)

2006-03-28T16:13:00.000-05:00

Artist:Pablo Galesi. 2003. 7.5"x10.5".Acrylic on gold metalic card stock with red electrical tape border.

2006-03-28T16:08:00.000-05:00

2006-03-28T15:50:00.000-05:00

two portraits on corregated coardboard, oil, postcard size, studio view