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"Some paintings ask you to look. Adam Umbach's paintings ask you to remember."
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Preview The Collection
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Work in Depth
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The Method
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Photorealistic Precision
Umbach begins with his dominant hand, rendering everyday objects — rubber ducks, toy sailboats, butterflies — to photographic levels of precision.
Getting there requires patience, technical command.
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The Switch
Having rendered the object with full precision, Umbach picks up the brush with his non-dominant hand and marks the canvas again. These marks — looser, less certain, more instinctive — are not corrections or accidents. They are the point.
The non-dominant hand has no pretense of control. It produces marks that recall a child's drawing, or handwriting, or the kind of mark a person makes when the usual rules are suspended.
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The Argument
The marks do not simply surround the objects — they intrude, echo, and repeat formal elements of the central image.
The gestural and photorealistic modes are in active conversation. A viewer can follow the argument from one zone of the canvas to another: here, precision; here, release; here, the moment where one gives way to the other.
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The Artist
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For Collectors
The Weight of Play is Umbach's Atlanta debut. Carousel Fine Art can facilitate introductions to the work and guide acquisition for first-time and experienced collectors alike.
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Available Works by Adam Umbach
The Weight of Play: Adam Umbach
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