Drawing on the visual language of Abstract Expressionism, Romantic landscape painting, and the material culture of home improvement stores, Adam creates layered abstract paintings that evoke imagined landscapes, shifting topographies, and organic forms suspended somewhere between the primordial and the futuristic.

His work is rooted in an ongoing fascination with deep time and the ways landscapes—real or imagined—are shaped through continual cycles of growth, erosion, and transformation, resisting any fixed sense of place or permanence.

Working with traditional painting media alongside construction materials, he builds, obscures, and reworks each surface until the materials themselves begin to behave less like manufactured products than geological or biological systems, allowing chance and revision to become integral to the finished work.

Rather than depicting a specific world, his paintings encourage a sense of discovery, inviting viewers to navigate unfamiliar terrain and draw their own connections between the microscopic, the planetary, and the primordial.

Raised in a family of visual artists, makers, and craftspeople in Southern California, Adam earned his B.A. in Film from UCLA. He currently lives and works in Connecticut, where he also leads brand initiatives for a national design retailer.