Adam Mulder

亚当在俄克拉荷马州的农村长大. He is the son of an entomologist who fostered a love of insects and nature in general. Much of his childhood was spent outside bug hunting, fishing, camping. He has always been fascinated by the intricacies of nature and the interactions between it and humans.

Before pursuing a career in art Adam worked in construction and property management. During his years doing this he learned many useful skills that translated easily to his sculptural work.

Adam Mulder earned his BFA from Oklahoma State University in 2008 and his MFA from Southern Illinois University in 2013. Adam was a visiting assistant professor at Oklahoma State University from 2013-2016 and is currently an Associate Professor at 道成肉身的大学 in 圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯州. In addition to teaching and creating sculpture Adam has a broad interest in creating furniture and other functional objects. He is a sculptor, furniture maker, printmaker, and ceramicist who has exhibited nationally. 亚当斯的作品被一些私人和公共收藏.

• Bachelor of Fine Art from Oklahoma State University in 2008
• Master of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University in 2013

Adam's undergraduate career began as a landscape architecture major and through several major changes and time off from school eventually decided to be a sculpture major. Sculpture was the only thing that could hold his interest and offered the opportunity to do something different every day. The endless possibilities of what a career as a sculptor offered could not be denied. During his academic career Adam has gained the skills necessary to do welding, 金属铸造及加工, 木工, mold making ,冷铸造, ceramics, printmaking, CAD design, 家具设计与施工. He has gained a broad knowledge base in the use of foundry, 金属和木材加工工具和设备. 除了他对传统工艺的了解, Adam has participated in and organized art installations, 表演(视频/生活), 组织, 以及社区项目.

• 2020-present: Associate Professor, 道成肉身的大学, San Antonio. 艺术系.
• 2016-2020: Assistant Professor, 道成肉身的大学, San Antonio. 艺术系.
• 2013-2016: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. 艺术、艺术史和平面设计系.

2020

• 大平原展览, Centre Gallery @ Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK.
• Artovation 2020: A Virtual Exhibition, Texas Association of Schools of Art.
• 艺术大奖，大急流城，密歇根州. (cancelled)

2019

• 89th Annual Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Art League and Museum, 圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯州.

2018

• 艺术奖，大急流城，密歇根州.
• 88th Annual Juried Exhibition, San Antonio Art League and Museum, 圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯州.
• Art of the Sacred Texas Springs, Headwaters at the Incarnate Word, Kelso Art Gallery. 圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯州.
• 道成肉身的大学 Faculty Exhibition, San Antonio TX.

2017

• Inspire Annual Juried Art Show, Inspire Community Arts Center, 圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯州.
• 艺术奖，大急流城，密歇根州.
• Nomadic Entanglement, San Antonio Art League and Museum, 圣安东尼奥，德克萨斯州 .

• 学院艺术协会CAA: 2013-至今
• 德州艺术学院协会:2016年至今
• 圣安东尼奥艺术联盟和博物馆:2016年至今

亚当总是在创造. Beyond being a sculpture professor he has a broad interest in furniture making, gardening, and anything involving skilled use of his knowledge of making and nature. He enjoys nothing more than spending time doing hands on projects with his children creating useful and beautiful things.

2020年:荣誉奖, 大平原展览, Centre Gallery @ Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK

• 2016年:中国科学院课程委员会
• 2017-至今:另类春假委员会

我用自然的形式来隐喻人类的经验. Nature forms and transforms through external and internal stimuli much like the way human personality traits and emotional identity form through our daily encounters with hardship and blessing. Similar to the way nature needs external stimuli and internal reactions to transform into its intended final form, humans also need this action to reaction process to form beliefs, values, character, 和身份.

Many of the seemingly insignificant occurrences in our lives can have significantly powerful effects on the formative processes that lead to the eventual outcome of our psyche. We often do not realize or understand the effects these stimuli have had upon our psyche until they have already taken hold. Life cycles in nature are similar to human psychological and physiological development. Think of a seed as a specific stimuli and the interpretation and evaluation of how we let that stimuli change us. Bundle that seed together with thousands of others and you will have a forest that makes up the whole of our experience which informs who we are.

My work is intended to make the viewer question their own experience. 通过使用大多数人似乎熟悉的自然形式, 但奇怪的是不同, I hope the viewer will question what their own reality is and whether or not their experience is true. Humans have a simultaneously wonderful and terrible ability to lie to themselves. We often will remember things differently than they actually happened. 话虽如此, most of my work addresses a personal experience and the struggle I have with what actually occurred. Each work is an expression of emotion, memory, or experience that I have had in my own life.

• 三维设计
• Sculpture 1
• Sculpture 2
• 先进的雕塑
• 专题:装置艺术
• Ceramics 1
• Drawing 1
• 先进的绘图
• 高级的工作室