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(3.95 - 146 votes)About Adam:
Adam is currently working in the Masters Program for Sculpture at The Academy of Art in San Francisco, CA. Adam was also juried into the 2008 National Sculpture Competition in Lyme Connecticut and won 1st Place for Figurative Sculpture in the Academy of Art’s 2008 Spring Show with “Pan With His iPod”.
About Adam’s “Socio-Technic Evolution” series:
This series explores the way in which modern technology changes the way western culture interacts with its world. The first one is “Sleeping Gamer”, based on the Greek sculpture “Sleeping Satyr”, is about a video game player (playstation controller in hand) resting between long periods of play. The second is the Greek god Pan. In my version, he is listening to his iPod rather than playing his flute.
These should become a question to the viewer about “why Greek images are used to represent us?”, “how have we changed from then?”, “What does it mean for us to change?”
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high Fives all around, I love the pan sculpture and the concept that you are addressing in this piece, I see nothing narcissistic about it and am interested to see more. Doing what you love to do and what you are good at is not a Narcissistic approach to developing and making art. This piece is fun and to often I look at figurative work and it becomes lost to history and classicism and does not address our modernity. You have skipped over a few hundred years and giving pan the next best thing to a flute an I-Pod. Thank you for doing what you are ding.
Comment by D Burt — April 11, 2009
This work is vivid and intense.
The ipod is not a cheap play for relevance but infact insightfull. (as we all listen to our inner beat) Pan with an ipod is scintillating.
Comment by karen — April 11, 2009
Great works of art! Marvelous! These are sculptures that can be appreciated by everyone.
Fantastic
Comment by Shane — April 11, 2009
Two beautiful works of art by a highly skilled artist. As to whether they “mean anything” — perhaps certain self-appointed arbiters amongst us here would do well to just appreciate such expressive talent and the right of artists to create art that can mean, or not mean, anything they desire — whether it’s someone else’s idea of the “right thing” or not.
Comment by Carole T — April 11, 2009
I think your work is amazing! Its always so interesting to see what Adam Reeder will do next! Amazing artist!
Comment by kelli — April 11, 2009
These are really strong pieces and the Pans iPod sculpture in particular is really clever.
If this is what your work is like coming out of the gate then I predict great things for you Mr Reeder.
Thatâ??s coming from a fellow (successful) sculptor and not a wannabe critic.
Comment by Marc M — April 11, 2009
These are both great peices of art! What a talented artist! Your the best Adam, and keep it up.
Comment by Matt — April 11, 2009
And this artist just graduated from college! This is someone to keep an eye on. If he’s sculpting this skillfully now, magine what he’ll be creating 10 . . . 20 years from now? Such strong pieces.
Comment by Edward Eyth — April 11, 2009
These works brilliantly combine the symbols of worship of two very disparate, but great societies’ . To me they bridge the gap between pop culture today and a very different pop culture in ancient Greece. In both cases, people seek that which is embraced by the populus. Clearly, this was all lost on itsalltemporal. Degrading a work of art because it includes a pop icon is dim-witted and demonstates a knee-jerk reaction to attempting to sound smart by tearing down others.
The craftsmanship is great and the uniqueness is even better!
Comment by Cameron W — April 11, 2009
Mr. Reeder shows great skill in his sculpting abilities. I think his idea that comes from “Pan and his Ipod” transcend the thousands of years between Pan’s time and now. Pan was a man and his flute, music was his life. The example shown here of him with an ipod is an amazing artistic expression of the idea of “if Pan were alive in this generation”. He would be that guy cruising down the street rocking out to the tunes on his ipod. Beautiful work, great interpretation!
Comment by Leslie — April 11, 2009