BIO

CELEBRITY POP ART

Adam Peppercorn Pinsley was born in New York City in 1970. With a preternatural gift for colors and textures, Adam began designing comic strips and murals at the age of 5. Influenced by his mother Penny, a gallery artist herself, Adam became a fixture at the Leo Castelli Gallery and Sydney Janis Gallery in New York City, where he was enamored and transfixed by the harmonization of medium that he observed in these gallery works. A harmonization that gave an animated vibrancy to these still-life portraits.

As a child growing up in Great Neck on Long Island, Adam began experimenting in various mediums and often found himself directing his attention to mainstream entertainment and sports related subjects. Inspired by some of his favorite artists Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Patrick Nagel, Pinsley's pop surreal vision, which balances detail, ambiguity, figurativeness, and abstraction, is quickly earning him the respect of art collectors nationwide. His use of white outlines to offset bold but strategically placed strokes of bright-unexpected colors captures and adds to the energy and movement of his subjects.

Pinsley celebrates contemporary experience and revels in popular imagery, as reflected in the vibrant and exuberant images he has created for celebrities, entertainers, professional athletes, private collectors and companies worldwide.

JET DRIP PAINTING

Inspired by artist Jackson Pollock, Pinsley puts his own spin on Abstract Expressionism and taps into the world of commercial aviation to create these oversized colorful unique works of art. Moving away from traditional artist mediums, Pinsley uses all commercial grade aircraft materials. The very same materials used by major airlines across the world. Using aircraft aluminum (or the skin or an airplane) as his canvas, scrap metal instead of brushes, his technique, like that of Pollock’s, consists of pouring and dripping commercial grade aircraft paint to achieve a more immediate means of creating art. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he adds a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his aluminum canvases from all directions.