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Adam Viens
The Inverse Problem
Exhibition: February 2 – March 12, 2026
Gallery Talk: Thursday, March 12 at 4:30 pm followed by reception 5 – 6:30 pm
Artists Statement
“2025 marked a shift in my practice. After years of mixed media work rooted in salvaged materials and grand narratives—human progress, cultural evolution, existential inquiry—the work turned inward. A series of disruptive events in 2024 forced a total reconfiguration of both studio and life. Loss, displacement, illness, and dislocation led to months away from art-making. When I returned, the expectations had changed. Paint became the primary medium—not to depict, but to process.
The studio practice now presents itself as a contradiction. It is cathartic and rigorous. The meditative flow state offers solace, but the process remains demanding—a tedious examination of what life throws at us. The work is a physical representation of emotional and intellectual processes. It holds what language cannot.
The paintings live in tension. They include natural reactions, trade-based gestures, subconscious mark-making, and large sweeping movements. These components create friction between thinking and feeling, between abstraction and the pictorial.
The work edges in and out of familiarity. It resists fixed meaning. Though personally motivated, the work gestures toward the perennial. Viewer interpretation is central. Meaning is contingent. The work is not didactic. It is an invitation. It poses questions, not answers.”
Adam Viens is a mixed media artist based in Middletown, Connecticut. Born in 1989 in Rockville, he was one of five siblings raised by a single mother.  He spent much of his childhood exploring the woods behind their home – land scattered with remnants from what had once been an unofficial town dump. That early exposure to discarded materials and forgotten systems continues to inform his work. Viens is primarily self-taught, with formative training at Manchester Community College in his early twenties, where he honed his skills under a faculty that emphasized process and integrity over prestige. He works out of a converted barn studio and has exhibited throughout New England for over a decade, including a recent solo exhibit at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT.  In 2019, he founded EarthSake Initiatives, a contracting company specializing in design-driven, eco-conscious renovations. In 2023, he launched EarthSake Studios, a sister company that transforms reclaimed materials from job sites into bespoke furniture. His practice bridges art, trade, and land—treating each as a system for inquiry, reuse, and transformation.
Instagram: @adamviensarts
Website: adamviensarts.com