Lenox Square Gallery: Contemporary Fine Art Now on View in Atlanta

Adam Umbach was born in Chicago in 1986. He grew up spending hours in the modern masters galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago, trained in painting at the University of Wisconsin, and built his practice around the coastal landscapes of East Hampton and Islesboro, Maine. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

The Weight of Play is his first solo exhibition in Atlanta, and it is the most formally compelling work currently in the gallery. The premise is structural: Umbach renders familiar objects from childhood iconography, rubber ducks, sailboats, flamingo lawn ornaments, sun balloons, with photorealistic precision using his dominant hand, then introduces gestural, freely-made marks with the other. Two visual languages share the canvas without resolving into each other. The precisely remembered thing sits surrounded by the marks of someone who has learned to stop trying to hold everything exactly.

His work has been featured in Elle Decor and Hamptons Magazine. His collectors span New York, the Hamptons, Nantucket, and Seoul. For Atlanta collectors, this is a significant introduction to a practice already embedded in serious private collections internationally.

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