Exhibitions

BIG EMPTY

Gallery Luperca / 604 Gallatin Ave., Ste. 212 March 12, 2016 - April 9, 2016

Adam Higgins

Gallery Luperca is please to present Adam Higgins’ contemporary abstractions in “Big Empty,” a show of large-scale oil paintings on canvas. The show runs from March 12 through April 9, 2016. The artist will be present at the closing reception on Saturday March 9 from 6-9 PM in conjunction with the East Side Art Stumble.

Higgins says, “I begin all of these pictures in a room by myself. I use them to think with my hands, like finding ideas by writing or talking. There is no grand design. I make them instead of country songs. I look for a sort of hum in them: a moment of click and hum when I find something big and empty; when there is sudden quiet all at once. This has something to do with the landscape of Tennessee and Agnes Martin matrixes and Forrest Bess looking at the sky.”

Adam Higgins spent the last year living on a 27 acre farm in Mascot, TN with a standard poodle and a couple of horses. He returned to Nashville, the city where he grew up, at the end of 2015. He obtained a BFA at the Memphis College of Art in 2012 and was a resident at A.I.C.A.D in New York the same year. He has exhibited in New York City and Tennessee, most recently at David Lusk Gallery in Memphis. You can see more of Adam’s work at http://www.adamroberthiggins.com/.