11 DOUBLE YOLKS

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11 Double Yolks

For Ron Adams form comes through the careful interplay of colour, geometry and text. His paintings are explorations of these elemental parts and their convergence shapes his idiosyncratic visual language. Adams has developed this language over many years and through conversations with him, it is evident that he thoughtfully selects his colours, shapes and words with specific subjective intentions, because like many of us, he makes art as a way of trying to process and understand the world around him. Like a filter, Adams distills the clutter, the noise of our contemporary world through a process of breaking down his chosen forms. He reconstructs common universal symbols with a positive chromatic intensity. He takes a word and gives it pictorial status. He lifts cartoon characters embedded within our collective pop culture memories and reminds us of their sweet simple symmetry.

These continual seismic shifts churn away in all our histories and yet we remain. From all the background noise these paintings distill the essentials - love of the arts, science, existence, but greatest of all, love itself.

Kylie Banyard

Ron Adams’s work invites an awareness of the way in which perceptions of ‘signs’ operate. You might call his artworks ‘meaning composites’. Understanding that emotion and thoughts are complex and abstracted things, and not able to be adequately pictured, Adams presents compositions that contain multiple elements and symbols. Much as semaphore or pictograms are systems for expressing particular concepts, Adams relies on the process whereby a thing can be spoken, written or suggested, and the recipient (us) thinks of a corresponding meaning. This process, in linguistic terminology, is called concretisation or actualisation. His use of graphics, colour, forms and texts are units which function as the building blocks to meaning, as are poems for example, made up from the organisation of single words.

His work continues a roving juxtaposing of hard edge painting, text work and animation, all playfully amplified with a colour field palette. The works are to be read as a reaction to or anecdotes of past influences and interests of the artist. The works are like pages of an autobiographical narrative or account.

Naomi Evans

13th Feb – 8th Mar, 2025
Opening Thur 13th Feb 6:00-8:00pm 

CBD Gallery, 72 Erskine Sydney