A passionate artist from an early age, Adam Wolpert explored the media of performance, ceramics, sculpture, and collage before turning seriously to painting while earning his BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After a rigorous two-year training in classical realism at Studio Cecil-Graves in Florence, Italy, where he immersed himself in the work of the great European masters, Wolpert completed an MFA at the University of California, San Diego. In 1994 Wolpert moved to Sonoma County and co-founded the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) where he still lives and paints. He has had major gallery representation since 1988, and is now represented by Erickson Fine Art Gallery in Healdsburg, California.

After completing multiple series - including a year spent painting seventy-two iterations of the same composition through four seasons (the Pond Series) - Wolpert’s process led him to explore his relationship with the vanishing great oaks of Sonoma county, through large portraits of the magnificent trees. This series started in 2017 and continues to this day.