MFA Annual
Spotlight Artist
Adam Higgins
MFA Annual
Artist Statement
I make pictures of things I like in a room by myself. I look for a
sort of hum in them: a moment of click and drone where I find
something self-evident; a moment when there is a sudden quiet.
This sentimentality is weird and circular, like tricking myself into
learning about my hands as if they weren’t mine. As if I loved my
hands and wanted to love them publicly but found myself unable
to without some outside information.
I’m obsessed with color: little piles of it, buzzing patterns of it, one
color spread thin and next to another, the space between them
becoming line. I can make light that way—and mirages. I often
use sequences of five colors because it leaves one in the middle,
like a color sandwich, to stop it moving around by itself.
Let’s talk shape: shapes riding an edge or just missing it, touching
a point or forming a gap. I either wedge them together or leave
them hanging. This has something to do with foreplay and
comedic aggression.
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