October 2024: Meet the Artists
Adam Amram, Adam Beris, and Tyler Christopher Brown
Adam Amram
Adam Amram is a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and animator who lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Amram’s recent work renders vibrantly colorful portraits of humanity in various moments—both those quotidian and mesmeric—be it a sparse still-life or a life affirming encounter with a stranger. Many of his paintings contain a distorted perspective, creating a distilled, uncomfortable sense of closeness to the subject at hand. Across all mediums, Amram’s works invoke a deep sense of yearning by way of their unique color, space, and fantastical narratives, which contemplate the challenges of life and relish in the remarkability of existence.
Amram earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD) in 2016, and is currently pursuing his MFA in Painting and Printmaking class of 2024 at Yale University (New Haven, CT). His work has been exhibited most recently at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA); Mother Gallery (Beacon, NY); The de Young Fine Arts Museum (San Francisco, CA); Works On Paper Gallery (Philadelphia, PA); Harpy (Rutherford, NJ/ Brooklyn, NY); Melanie Flood Projects + Adams and Ollman Gallery (Portland, OR); and Resort (Baltimore, MD). Amram attended the Yale School of Art Norfolk Summer Fellowship in 2015, and was an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) in 2018. Amram was recently named the 2019-2020 YoungArts Daniel Arsham Fellow and Published in Art Maze Magazine.
Adam Beris
Adam Beris makes paintings that celebrate and challenge traditional relationships between object, subject, foreground, and background. Beris’ primary action in the studio is squeezing paint from tubes. Deftly extruding streams of unadulterated color into an array of symbols, characters, food, ideas, and abstractions, Beris has created an ever- expanding lexicon of pictographs that are informed by the shapes of language, infographics, and the pervasive influence of social media. Aligned in grids, Beris’ glyphs function like a lost codec of a childhood dream, but tangled amongst the blades of extruded paint grass, they resemble the refuse of a careless and anthropocentric society—and to prove his point Beris embeds litter from walks in his neighborhood in between painting sessions.
Beris received a dual degree in Painting and Creative Writing from Kansas City Art Institute in 2009. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including MCC Longview Cultural Center in Lee’s Summit, MO; Over the Influence in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, CA; Y53 and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA; The Omaha Creative Institute in Omaha, NE; and OCHI in Sun Valley, ID. Beris currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by OCHI.
Tyler Christopher Brown
Tyler Christopher Brown’s sculptures and installations investigate the conflict between personal autonomy and societal norms. By reappropriating natural forms and celestial phenomena, ubiquitous materials are transformed to reveal the absurdities in our quest for meaning. Double consciousness serves as a conceptual lens to explore duality and the intricacies of identity, using double entendres to underscore absence and abjection, thus prompting reflection on what is left unsaid.
Materials such as fragments of American muscle cars, musical instruments, tools of labor, found clothing, and items from industrial production and advertising are chosen for their socio-economic and historical significance. Each selection emphasizes the interaction between materiality and meaning, converting the ordinary into a medium for deeper inquiry. The works delve into the interplay between memory, mythology, and historical interpretation, challenging established narratives and inviting a reconsideration of historical veracity. Brown has recently shown work at Fragment Gallery (New York) and M+B Los Angeles.
