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Allan Adams, Lathe, 1979
maple
48 x 52 x 28 in.

Allen Adams was born in Arizona in 1952. He earned his B.A. from California State College, Stanislaus, in 1975 and an M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis in 1978. His work has been exhibited at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, and the Baltimore Art Institute. Adam's works are highly detailed, illusionistic wood sculptures of objects traditionally manufactured from other materials. To remind the viewer that his works are sculptures, not merely replicas of utilitarian objects, he leaves them unpainted and unstained. His pieces characterized by fine detail and a virtuosic range of scale.