AGAM NEIMAN
Showing space tbc
Agam Neiman (b.1984) trained with Gammel student Paul Ingbretson in the Boston School approach to classical realism in New Hampshire, which served as his introduction to the world of fine arts and technical oil painting.
Seeking to integrate a traditional approach with contemporary subjects and methods, he trained with renowned illustrator Greg Manchess before moving to Montreal in order to seek an industry-oriented path into the world of digital concept art. However, events of 2020 motivated Agam’s recommitment to a hands-on studio practice as the experience of lockdown and isolation caused him to reflect on the crucial immediacy of art making as a material, tactile encounter with the world. He shifted his practice into the production of plein air urban nocturne studies painted impressionistically before delving further into portraiture.
Agam has since attended two residencies at the Maison de Chapitres in Southern France before relocating to the Hudson Valley where he maintains his studio practice.
Artist Statement
The goal within my work is to capture and transmit the quietly emotive power of particularity and place, the non-verbal, non-exchangeable aspects of fleeting places and instants otherwise lost to the noise of daily concern. The fleeting qualities of light as it transits the sleeping rolls and rhythms of the land translate, through canvas, eye, and brush, into a frozen music of the seen.
My task is to transmit these pre-verbal encounters with the world as a series of different tones across canvas, each a window into a preserved mysterious instant.