Chad Adair Art Opening
Thu, Aug 08
|District Wine Bar
Join us as we welcome local artist Chad Adair to the walls of District Wine Bar. Chad will be on hand to answer questions and discuss his art.
Time & Location
Aug 08, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
District Wine Bar, 37 Paynes Way, Asheville, NC 28801, USA
About the Event
Chad Adair began his artistic career in 1992 after graduating from Western Carolina University with a BFA in Painting/Photography. As a successful studio painter Chad had several gallery exhibitions in the south, including a solo exhibition in 1993 at Belk Gallery and Blue spiral Gallery in 1994 in Asheville NC. His mixed media works are predominantly oil on canvas or wood, with multi-layers of found objects, found imagery, and original photography. Chad also began touring with a grunge rock group called Strobelight Cockfight as visual director providing lighting and background visuals for the band. Equipped with multiple VCRs, Chad used the old school method of hard cutting looping his source material into video montages that were powerful and disturbing. His love affair with motion picture manipulation had begun.
In 1995 he was accepted into the MFA program in the Motion Picture and Video Department at the Academy of Art University…