Dennis Hollingsworth

David Adamo at Unt/tled

Here are a few photos of David Adamo's show, the afternoon reception at Unt/tled.

At the entrance, Adamo built what I call a wailing wall. That's my nomination, not his. The stones draw a line into the plenum of a main space of Untitled's gallery. It's a great move, simple and it overcomes the strange limitation of having to squeeze past the narrows of a reception before one finally arrives at the presentation space proper.

Adamo wails at hunks of wood with one of two adze in his possession. An adze is a tool that is kind of like an axe but with a cupped blade at right angles to the handle. It's an ancient tool used for shaping wood (therefore the canoe forms in Adamo's show), a tool that's wielded by swinging the dangerous end of the tool between one's legs.

Adamo kindly left evidence of his capacity for careful woodcarving: one of the hunks of wood has a violin's neck and scroll protruding from it. Meanwhile in the rest of the gallery is all nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.

More panoramics after the fold....