Artist Profile for Jo Adang

My paintings are a psychological and emotional process. An image is started with an emotion or a thought, seldom a set plan. The focus becomes visually expressing the particular thought, feeling or concept I experience. The emotions emerge as the painting takes form. The hidden message is expressed in the flow of the colors and edges of the figure and the look on the face.

My images examine the relationship of the human experience and balance, shape and color in a picture plane. I particularly enjoy exploring the boundaries of reality and composition and merging representational form with the abstract.

I began my artistic endeavors as a scientist, illustrating textbooks and lab manuals with subjects ranging from kinesiology to botany. Next came scientific publications, photography, graphics, and presentation materials for the emerging biotechnology industry. I taught gifted students in elementary school, college level science labs, and helped run the state science fair along the way. It is this scientific/artistic dual-personality that makes my art strangely precise and abstract at the same time.     -- Jo

Education

BS Indiana University 5th yr. degree Washington State Univ. Gifted Ed. Specialist Univ. of Georgia

Selected Exhibitions

2002

• Decatur Arts Festival, juried fine art exhibition, Decatur GA
• "Pink Onions" Juried Exhibition, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
• Artists' Reaction to War, juried exhibition, ATHICA Gallery, Athens, GA
• The Art Project, on-line exhibition, Artists Respond to Terrorism, http://www.theartproject.net/toc.htm

2001

• Online Exhibition UGA Responds, University of Georgia, Athens, GA www.uga.edu/news/september11/thoughts
• 32nd National Juried Exhibition, Cheyenne Artist Guild, Cheyenne, WY
• 30th National Juried Exhibition, National Shakespeare Festival, Cedar City, UT
• Online Exhibition Call and Response, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA www.kutztown.edu/acad/artgallery
• International Realism III, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE