Adam Gunn Art
Canadian, b. 1977
Adam Gunn's painting practice began with a desire to subvert the traditional still life genre, creating an absurd experience that would evoke a sense of uncertainty in the viewer. Initially, they painted from observed forms, exaggerating them and creating surreal compositions. However, their newer works incorporate a variety of sources, including imagination and organic processes to create indeterminate spaces and shapes. The artist is drawn to the unpredictable process that creates these forms and has begun painting in a more improvisational manner, balancing this with planning to emulate the process of natural evolution in their paintings. The artist received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has been recognized for their works in various competitions, including being a finalist in the RBC Painting Competitions and a regional winner in the BMO 1st! Art competition. Originally from Nova Scotia, the artist currently resides in Montreal, pursuing graduate studies in art at Concordia University.to
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Artist: Adam Gunn
Ruin Value Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010-
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
King of Polly’s Cove, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Orange Moon Over Caribou, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Beach Fire by the Northumberland Strait, Contemporary Oil on Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Sundown at Hirtles, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life: his return to his home province of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, at the height of the Covid pandemic, obtaining his driver’s license, and his introduction to plein air painting by local artists. The artist traveled through his home province, painting on-site to capture the natural beauty and illustrate the diversity of Nova Scotia’s landscape (Project made possible through a grant from Arts Nova Scotia).
Adam Gunn is an artist (primarily a painter) currently based in Nova Scotia Canada. He has accumulated a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. He’s been the recipient of the Nancy Petry Foundation award, a two-timer semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Duck Pond in Red, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
High Ground View in Caribou, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Downtown Bridgewater at Night, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life: his return to his home province of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, at the height of the Covid pandemic, obtaining his driver’s license, and his introduction to plein air painting by local artists. The artist traveled through his home province, painting on-site to capture the natural beauty and illustrate the diversity of Nova Scotia’s landscape (Project made possible through a grant from Arts Nova Scotia).
Adam Gunn is an artist (primarily a painter) currently based in Nova Scotia Canada. He has accumulated a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal. He’s been the recipient of the Nancy Petry Foundation award, a two-timer semi-finalist in the RBC Canadian Painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Crescent Beach Sun Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, Contemporary
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Northumberland Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, Framed, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Sunset at Stonehurst, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Conquerall Mills Power Plant Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Around the Corner at Riverport: Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
The Altar Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010s, Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Adam Gunn’s painting practice began with a desire to subvert the traditional still life genre, creating an absurd experience that would evoke a sense of uncertainty in the viewer. In...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Regretté de Tous, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Foreign Phantasm Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 36x36 in
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Ruin Value (Second Version) Acrylic on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice caps and slowed down the circulation of the oceans so that they have become like a gigantic stagnant pond. This still oxygen depleted water will allow the proliferation of anoxygenic bacteria that will change the chemistry of the ocean making it poisonous to oxygen dependant life. These bacteria will also release hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere causing a mass extinction of animal and plant life on land. This stark yet colourful world will be sublimely beautiful, but there will be no one around to see it.
This series of paintings depicts an imagining of our world after the catastrophic consequences of climate change through a reinterpretation of well-known images with a romantic sensibility towards nature. Romanticism was in part a reaction to the industrial revolution marked by a nostalgia for an untouched natural world and a reverence for its overwhelming power. Ironically the spread and continuation of that industrialism is predicted to set in motion a new version of nature that will completely overpower the human world as we know it. With these thoughts in mind, I’ve sourced some paintings associated with the romantic movement and removed the human figures from them – the only evidence of people are the decaying ruins left behind in this uncanny green and purple landscape. I’ve also referenced some photographs from the Apollo moon missions that are thought to have influenced the beginning of modern environmental awareness.
The starting point for this series of paintings was Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Ruckenfigur Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010-
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Near and Far, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 12 x 16 in
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
All, Always, Forever, Never - Abstract Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.” – Immanuel Kant
A recent online story in the German news outlet Deustche Welle post...
Category
2010s Abstract Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sometimes I Forget What I Am, Abstract Mixed Media Painting, 2010-
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I am primarily a painter of things and my practice has grown out of a process of subverting the genre of still life. For my most recent paintings I have been working in an improvisat...
Category
2010s Abstract Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Exquisite Resting Place, Abstract Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
y painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from l...
Category
2010s Abstract Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Contemporary Oil Painting of Old Bridgewater Theater, Framed, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Touching Maud’s Nose, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010-
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Sunset at Caribou, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Sunset at Blue Rocks, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Side of the Road at Caribou, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Polly’s Cove East View, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Parrsboro Walking Path, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
North Melford Sea Stacks, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Middle Lahave Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, Framed, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Mahone Bay Lilly Pond, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
MacCormacks Beach Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, Contemporary
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Looking Out from Kingsburg, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Lahave Sunset Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, Framed, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Hirtle’s Beach Sunset, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Gaff Point Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, Framed, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Favourite Tree on the LaHave, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Fire Brook Falls Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, Contemporary Art
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Dunes and Jupiter, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Crescent Beach Road Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, Contemporary
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Sunrise at Caribou, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
By the LaHave River: Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Bayswater Beach Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Framed, Contemporary Art
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Another Sunrise at Caribou, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This exhibition highlights Adam Gunn’s latest work, consisting of oil paintings on wood panels. This recent body of work was inspired by three coinciding events in the artist’s life:...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
You Float on Nothing, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
The Sticks Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010s, Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Adam Gunn’s painting practice began with a desire to subvert the traditional still life genre, creating an absurd experience that would evoke a sense of uncertainty in the viewer. In...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
The Sticks 2 Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, Unframed, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Adam Gunn’s painting practice began with a desire to subvert the traditional still life genre, creating an absurd experience that would evoke a sense of uncertainty in the viewer. In...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
A Place Where Nothing Happens: Contemporary Oil on Wood, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Adam Gunn’s painting practice began with a desire to subvert the traditional still life genre, creating an absurd experience that would evoke a sense of uncertainty in the viewer. In...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
In The Sticks, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 2010- Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Adam Gunn’s painting practice began with a desire to subvert the traditional still life genre, creating an absurd experience that would evoke a sense of uncertainty in the viewer. In...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Random Stone of Oblivion, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup being handed to me, and I can vividly remember the very first time I was able to wield colour with a red crayon. As a painter, I acutely feel the significance of this change in colour of the world’s landscapes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Au Revoir Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010s, Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
So Long, Contemporary Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Circa 2010, Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Great Expectations Oil Painting on Curved Wood Panel, Contemporary Art
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup being handed to me, and I can vividly remember the very first time I was able to wield colour with a red crayon. As a painter, I acutely feel the significance of this change in colour of the world’s landscapes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Overview Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Contemporary, 2010s, Unframed
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
I made these paintings in response to a prediction for a change in the colour of the sky and oceans as a consequence of man-made climate change. This idea described by Peter Ward in his book Under a Pale Green Sky is based on his study of the great mass extinction events of the past. For many of these extinction events the earth’s chemistry changed the sky to green and the oceans purple.
My personal memories are often tied to colour – my first recollection is of an orange cup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Garden of Earthly Remains, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2010+
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Devouring the Future, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2010-
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice caps and slowed down the circulation of the oceans so that they have become like a gigantic stagnant pond. This still oxygen depleted water will allow the proliferation of anoxygenic bacteria that will change the chemistry of the ocean making it poisonous to oxygen dependant life. These bacteria will also release hydrogen sulfide into the atmosphere causing a mass extinction of animal and plant life on land. This stark yet colourful world will be sublimely beautiful, but there will be no one around to see it.
This series of paintings depicts an imagining of our world after the catastrophic consequences of climate change through a reinterpretation of well-known images with a romantic sensibility towards nature. Romanticism was in part a reaction to the industrial revolution marked by a nostalgia for an untouched natural world and a reverence for its overwhelming power. Ironically the spread and continuation of that industrialism is predicted to set in motion a new version of nature that will completely overpower the human world as we know it. With these thoughts in mind, I’ve sourced some paintings associated with the romantic movement and removed the human figures from them – the only evidence of people are the decaying ruins left behind in this uncanny green and purple landscape. I’ve also referenced some photographs from the Apollo moon missions that are thought to have influenced the beginning of modern environmental awareness.
The starting point for this series of paintings was Arnold Böcklin’s Isle of the Dead...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Nothing But Blue Skies Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel, Contemporary
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Abery in the Ocean, Contemporary Acrylic on Wood Panel, 2010-
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his book Now or Never naturalist Tim Flannery describes a vision of a world with a dead purple ocean and a poisonous green sky. This is a world where warming has melted the ice ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Contemporary Counterintuitive Oil Painting on Wood Panel, 30x30
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting practice began with subverting the idea of a still life to create an absurd experience where the presence of carefully observed and exaggerated absurd forms painted from ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Adam Gunn Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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