Nicholas Wilton interviews Adam. Nicholas says, "Every time his work takes a quantum leap forward, I am always excited to catch up with him to learn why. What just happened? How is it possible these paintings have become so so powerful?"
Featured Gallery: Great Oaks
Pond Series
Sextets
Quartets
New Landscapes
Memories
Premonitions
Premonitions
Abstracts
Forests & Trees
Bodega Bay
Triptychs
Early Landscapes
Silent Circles / Passages
Ambiguous Figures
Still Life & Still Point
Available Prints
Exhibitions
Show Exhibitions
Solo
2019
Great Oaks
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2019
Pathways to Presence
Commonweal Main Gallery, Bolinas, CA
2018
The Pond Series
Jackson Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, Wy
2017
Recent Works
Ice House Gallery, Petaluma Ca
2017
Adam Wolpert paints tea bowls
Seishin Studio, Santa Rosa, CA
2015
New Work
The Wall Gallery, Oakland, CA
2014
New Landscapes
Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental, CA
2013
New Paintings
The Firehouse, Ft. Mason Center, San Francisco
2013
The Anatomy of a Creative Process
On The Commons, Ft. Mason Center building B, suite 301
2013
Millennial Abstractions
Marin Community Foundation
2012
Adam Wolpert: New Paintings.
Hillside Gardens, Mill Valley, CA
2011
Premonitions
Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA
2010
Gallery Group Show
Sulkin Secant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Adam Wolpert: Sonoma County Landscapes
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2009
Painting Space
Look Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
New Paintings
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
New Small Paintings
Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA
2007
30th Anniversary Celebration
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
New Paintings
Venue, St Helena, CA
2006
Of the Land
Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA
2004
Relationships
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Selected New Works
Esalen Institute, Bug Sur, CA
2001
Inner and Outer Contemplations
The Presidio Alliance, San Francisco, CA
2000
Silent Circles: Explorations in Depths and Shallows
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999
California Landscapes and New Studio Paintings
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA
1998
Place/Spirit
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
The Garden on the Edge
Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
1995
Figures and Landscapes, New Paintings
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994
Adam Wolpert, Paintings 1994
Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
1994
Adam Wolpert, New Work
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
1993
Ambiguous Figures
University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts Center Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1992
Still Point
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Invitational Exhibitions
2021
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Erickson Fine Art Gallery
2021
Embodied Forest
Ecoartspace.org
2021
Think About Water
thinkaboutwater.com
2020
Landscape Awe to Activism
Sonoma County Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2014
New Landscapes
Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental, CA
2013
Sonoma County Landscapes
Occidental Center for the Arts, Occidental, CA
2013
Millennial Abstractions
Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA
2012
The Last Hurrah
Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA
2010
Look Inside
Sulkin Secant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Of The Land
Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA
2004
Botany 12
Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2003
Art Auction X
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2003
Facing the Millennium: Portraits and self portraits
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group
2018
Call and Response
Occidental Center for the arts, Occidental, CA
2000
Facing the Millennium: Portraits and Self Portraits
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
Remembrance of Exhibitions Past: 20th Anniversary Celebration
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Open Air Paintings, 12 Weeks in Fairfield, Tony King, William Wheeler, Adam Wolpert
Fairfield Center Gallery, Fairfield, CA
1996
Outdoor Painting,Tony King, William Wheeler, Adam Wolpert
Mills Building, San Francisco, CA
1996
Off the Wall
Bradford Gallery, San anselmo, CA
1996
Summer Group/ Gallery Artists
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1996
Winter Solstice Show - black and white lithographs
King-Heller Gallery, Bodega, CA
1996
The Land - Under a Foot #2
Bradford Gallery, San Anselmo, CA
1995
Winter Group/Gallery Artists
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1995
GALLERY ARTISTS
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1995
Art Fair Seattle
Elizabeth Leach Gallery booth, Seattle, WA
1994
Summer: Changing Work by a Variety of Artists
R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1994
Flora: In Artist Gardens
S. F. Community Arts, 400 South Hope Street Associates, Los Angeles, CA
1994
The Sacred and the Profane
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
CAPTURED MOMENTS; The Narrative in American and European Paintings
Adamson-Duvannes Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1993
A Dialogue of Artworks by Mid-Career Artists
The Architecture/Design Studio of Sulkin and Mills, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Small Works, Paintings, Machines, & Tape
Solano Community College Gallery, Suisun, CA
1992
GROUP-ED
University of California, San Diego, CA
1992
GALLERY ARTISTS
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
FIRST NATIONAL SHOW
Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
1992
GALLERY ARTISTS
Summer Exhibition, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
San Diego, Tijuana, Yokohama Art Exchange (SDTYAE)
Yokohama Citizens Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1992
Long Beach Arts 88th Open Juried Exhibit
Long Beach, CA
1991
PHANTASY: Image-Making Power
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
California Contemporary Realism
John Wayne Airport, Costa Mesa, CA
1990
5th International Contemporary Art Fair
Jan Baum Gallery booth 962, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Celebrate Summer 1990
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989
Gaia Pacifica; The Art of Activism
Centro Cultural, San Diego, CA
1985
MindScapes: Adam Wolpert-Marc Pandone
Solano Community College, Suison, CA
BIO
Employing a range of techniques and motifs, the work of painter Adam Wolpert reflects a lifelong engagement with Nature.
His varied imagery explores the themes of cycles, relationships and balance, and investigates the subtle distinction between the representational and the abstract. His earlier naturalistic outdoor work speaks of his relationship with the land, in particular his home in West Sonoma County at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC).
A passionate artist from an early age, 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 2-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 UC San Diego. He has had major gallery representation since 1988, including many solo exhibitions and group shows and 18 years with the Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles. Wolpert co-founded the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center in 1994 and has taught and lectured extensively throughout California.
Press
Check out the Full Expression podcast
Dan Imhoff speaks with Adam about his focus on why he values his creative practice more than finished products, the discipline and patience that the craft of painting requires, how drawing and painting can positively affect your mindset and memory, and the importance of doing what you love, showing up every day, and having faith.
Museum Conversations with Adam Wolpert
Artist Adam Wolpert joins Museum of Sonoma County Executive Director and Art Curator, Jeff Nathanson, for a conversation about Wolpert's art, his inspiration, and his close relationship to the natural environments he depicts. He invites us (virtually) into his studio space at his home, located at the Occidental Art and Ecology Center, where he shares his works in progress.