Artist

Hank Murta Adams

born Philadelphia, PA 1956
Media - portrait_image_113307.jpg - 89868
Photography by Sam Geer. Courtesy Hank Murta Adams.
Also known as
  • Hank M. Adams
Born
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Biography

Hank Murta Adams studied as a painter before turning to the medium of glass. He describes portraiture as a "venture of communication, with the sitter, the viewer and society at large." He does not create individual portraits, but uses the "theatrics of posed or imagined characters" to explore human experience. Adams's work abandons the conventional function of glass to transmit light; instead, his glass castings capture light and a sense of life within. The rough, disfigured surfaces of his works are embedded with fragments of industrial debris.

Works by this artist (122 items)

Edward Mitchell Bannister, Driving Home the Cows, 1881, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of G. William Miller, 1983.95.58
Driving Home the Cows
Date1881
oil on canvas
On view
Edward Mitchell Bannister, Train, ca. 1875-1880, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick and Joan Slatsky, 1983.95.107
Train
Dateca. 1875-1880
oil on canvas
On view
Edward Mitchell Bannister, Woman Walking down Path, 1882, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Joseph Sinclair, 1983.95.156
Woman Walking down Path
Date1882
oil on canvas
On view