Editor's Note: This show was curated by the writer’s boyfriend.
Psychiatrist by day, painter by night, Adam Miguel Estevez opened his solo show, Passage: Works by Adam Miguel Estevez at the Studio @620 last Friday. Ranging in style from iconic to abstract, Estevez’s pieces were continuous in their use of perspective, all of them plunging the eye somewhere deep into the frame or toying with the viewer’s equilibrium with the use of harsh or unusual angles, such as in the diptych pieces, “Cascade 1” and “Cascade 2” which reverse into a mirror image (pictured below).
The Studio’s main gallery housed Estevez’s color works, the Astrid and G. David Ellis gallery in back, his black and white. The color works suggest a passage of time between representational and abstract pieces, some of them bordering on the iconic, others leaning heavily on their use of geometric figures, falling skillfully into the realm of the abstract. Timm Mettler, who curated the Passage show, explains, “Some of his uses of paint are traditional in their representation, other bodies of work apply more painterly brushstrokes for a more abstract look.”
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2009.