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    • Sagehen Residency
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    • Info
    • Portfolio
      • The River Sweats
      • Fidelity Ablation
      • Fouling the Nest
      • Dandelion Bonebath
      • Make Hay
      • The Soul Confronted
      • Sagehen Residency
      • Confidence to Sing
    • Research
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  • Info
  • Portfolio
    • The River Sweats
    • Fidelity Ablation
    • Fouling the Nest
    • Dandelion Bonebath
    • Make Hay
    • The Soul Confronted
    • Sagehen Residency
    • Confidence to Sing
  • Research

studio@alexadkinson.net

I am an artist and digital imaging researcher living in Chicago. My work reflects on the post-industrial landscape. Through the material poetics of steel, digital images, clay, copper, and chemicals, my constructions are haunted by what is missing in a hyper-mediated society. In my work as a digital imaging researcher, I create 3D reconstructions to archive living subjects in natural history collections. Even in high resolution, life resists perfect translation. Gaps and distortions emerge in the representations, revealing its limits. I am fascinated by what is living in the gaps and what is lost to capture. What can and cannot be metabolized as information. Sculpture offers something more solid, a direct relationship to images as objects, the raw materials of urbanity as faded waypoints in a constellation of images, the body, the city, and the earth. 




Alex Adkinson