Adam Fearon

Ashley Berlin is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artist Adam Fearon. The exhibition consists of 14 oil portraits of friends made over the course of the last year. Painted from life in the artist’s Berlin studio, the works are a departure from his more research-based practice and a dive into the purely phenomenological of being together and painting, portraitist and sitter. Initially, these paintings were not made to be exhibited for the public; they instead stemmed from a desire simply to spend time with others and represent relationships in a time of distance and estrangement. Each work is a rigorously created record that captures daily life, dress, and personal moods, as well as changing light against a subtly shifting studio material in the background.

Adam Fearon lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin and Städelschule, Frankfurt. Projects include Paravents, Visual Tendencies, Berlin (2021) Relief, Butler Gallery, Killkenny, Ireland (2019) Lignin, Harbinger, Reyjavik (2018) Things I Think I Want Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (2017) Twill, Kunsthal ved am seden af, Svendborg, Denmark (2017) Augury, BQ, Berlin (2016) p13n, Room E10-27, Paris (2015) Berlin Art Prize, District, Berlin (2015). In 2020 he was a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland's Next Generation Artist award.