Shane McAdams, Greener Pastures LLC

 

SHANE McADAMS Greener Pastures LLC 

Please join us on Friday, February 11th from 5-8PM for the opening reception of Shane McAdams, Greener Pastures LLC. An exhibition of recent work named after the artist’s father’s landscaping business; this will be the first solo exhibition of McAdams’ work at The Alice Wilds and will be on view through March 26, 2022.

When asked to describe this exhibition, McAdams noted:

I was an itinerant kid. I didn’t begin and finish a year in the same school until high school. I always wanted to lie when people asked if my dad was in the military because it was easier than explaining the truth, which I still don’t totally understand. Today I just say my parents were pirates and enjoyed sailing on the paved American version of the open seas. In 1984 my dad started a landscaping company called Greener Pastures that was less about lawns I think than his own fantasies of freedom and creation. I worked on a crew as an eleven-year-old with a guy named Lennie who drank gallons of orange drink all day, and Robert who drank peppermint schnapps and only drove the truck in the mornings. It was in El Paso and other areas we’d moved to around the Southwest that I gained my connection to land, sand, minerals, and the fantasies of freedom. 

Shane McAdams is a landscape painter in the broadest sense of the word, allowing the physical world to guide his work in both process and content. He is an artist, writer, curator, and educator commuting between Brooklyn, NY and Cedarburg, WI. He received a BA in Art History from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute. He has been showing his work nationally and internationally for over 15 years and has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Marian University. He has been a contributor to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and currently writes for the Shepherd Express. McAdams also runs Real Tinsel, an art gallery on the Southside of Milwaukee.