Adam Ogilvie

(born 1971 -)

American

Adam Ogilvie, born in 1971, came up as the peak of analogue gave way to the beginnings of a rudimentary digital world. His work confronts the strange moments created by these times where pre-history and post-apocalypse collide. Disaster looms over innocent sensuality, a reaction to the possibilities of birth in a dark time. Adam Ogilvieʼs paintings, with their dreamlike imagery, unnatural light and colors, figures and objects seemingly frozen in time, create an oddly specific language of myth. The imagery is deeply rooted in pop and folk iconography, early video games, childhood cartoons, psychedelic culture and the sign paintings of Woody Guthrieʼs America. At the same time the work is influenced by the traditions of far eastern vessels and scrolls, Byzantine stained glass and mid-century modern design.