Adam Gunn Paintings
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
In the Remote Parts
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Messages in a Bottle
Text by Cameron Skene
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.” - Immanuel Kant
A recent online story i...
Category
2010s Abstract Adam Gunn Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Sticks
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sunset at Blue Rocks
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Parrsboro Walking Path
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Middle Lahave
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
King of Polly’s Cove
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Beach Fire by the Northumberland Strait
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Swiss Air Memorial Parking Lot
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Orange Moon Over Caribou
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Side of the Road at Caribou
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Touching Maud’s Nose
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sunset at Caribou
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Northumberland
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Looking Out from Kingsburg
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sunrise at Caribou
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Another Sunrise at Caribou
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
High Ground View in Caribou
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sundown at Hirtles
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mahone Bay Lilly Pond
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sunset at Stonehurst
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Bayswater Beach
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Crescent Beach Sun
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Around the Corner at Riverport
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Random Stone of Oblivion
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
You Float on Nothing
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
So Long
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Other Side of The Sky
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Foreign Phantasm
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Sometimes I Forget What I Am
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 Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Ruin Value
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 Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Garden of Earthly Remains
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 Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Devouring the Future
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 Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
Counterintuitive
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
One Damn Thing After Another
By Adam Gunn
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Messages in a Bottle
Text by Cameron Skene
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.” - Immanuel Kant
A recent online story i...
Category
2010s Abstract Adam Gunn Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Exquisite Resting Place
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Old Bridgewater Theater
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Polly’s Cove East View
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
North Melford Sea Stacks
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
MacCormacks Beach
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Lahave Sunset
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Hirtle’s Beach Sunset
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Great Rock of Polly’s Cove
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Gaff Point
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fire Brook Falls
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Favourite Tree on the LaHave
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Dunes and Jupiter
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Duck Pond in Red
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Downtown Bridgewater at Night
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Crescent Beach Road
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Conquerall Mills Power Plant
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
By the LaHave River
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Sticks 2
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
In The Sticks
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Altar
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Au Revoir
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Regretté de Tous
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Overview
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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