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Meet the Artist Bill Adelman

"Adelman's medium is oil or acrylic painted in a meticulous style, frequently requiring months of careful application.  I am reminded of the technical qualities of the French surrealist painter Rene Magritte. The Adelman paintings are not blatantly surrealistic as are Magritte's, but there is, nevertheless, a subtle intensity in the consistently hard edge style that conveys a haunting, dreamlike quality."

by Lawrence N. Jensen, AWS
Excerpt from "Woods Hole Gallery Shows Adelman's Recent Works"

"The large blue vertical painting, "Cenote" by William Adelman, is a 48" high acrylic work that attracts the viewer through its harmony of light and dark blues with green, its soft transition form edges and its simplified circular design.  This lyrical pure abstraction contrasts with much of the artist's usual landscapes or hard-edge precisionist, and sometimes psychological, studies that are more objective in a realist sense."

by Peter L. Koenig
Excerpt from "Eclectic and Interesting Combination Of Art At Abstract Shows"
The Enterprise Newspapers

"William Adelman's acrylic painting, Nobska Light, describes that familiar Cape landmark in a highly person, precisely executed, coloristically refined and apparently objective style.  However, the artist's special and deliberately careful perspective of those objects he has decided to include as well those which have been left out or greatly simplified, becomes the strength and subject focus of the painting, and through this subjectivity the artist's vision presents and describes a timeless time, a surreal silence."

by Peter L. Koenig
Excerpt from "Duxbury Art Association Show Includes Works By Two Falmouth Artists"

"Adelman, whose exhibit "People and Their Spaces" is on view through March 29 at Cape Cod Conservatory, Route 132, doesn't have the same strong interest in the urban environment.  But his paintings are similar to Hopper's in offering an unromanticized view of 20th-century life in which the commonplace seems a trifle bizarre.
   In painting, "Loveland Pass, Elev. 11,700 Ft.," for example, the artist eschewed a straightforward landscape of this Colorado Rocky Mountain high in favor of a scene of snow-covered peaks as they might be viewed through the big front window of a bus by a passenger.  The driver's head and the rear view mirror block small portions of the magnificent panorama.
   Hopper used hard edges and harsh light and pared down scenes to their essential elements to convey the lack of humanity in modern society.  Adelman's very realistic style goes even a step beyond Hopper's in its dearth of detail and severity of line.  But then, the technological and architectural designs of today are even more streamlined than they were during Hopper's lifetime."

by Cindy Nickerson
Excerpt from "Falmouth painter a contemporary Hopper"
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