New Art Installed on Campus

About twenty-five original paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Wayne Adams are on loan to The King's College through June 2017.

A painting on the TKC Campus
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As students return to campus over the next week, they’ll notice new art installed on the walls in the lower level lobby and the executive suite. About twenty-five original paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Wayne Adams are on loan to The King’s College through June 2017.

The eclectic work is mostly comprised of acrylic on canvas; some incorporate mixed media (including fake fur). Visitors to the work will notice that the titles provoke new ways of looking at familiar passages from Scripture.

Adams, who serves as president of the board of Christians in the Visual Arts, has exhibited throughout the midwestern United States, New York, and Vienna, Austria. He earned his B.F.A. at Calvin College and his M.F.A. at Washington University in St. Louis. Adams was introduced to King’s by Presidential Scholar and Art Historian in Residence Dr. Daniel Siedell, whose class has visited Adams’s studio in Brooklyn.

“Our students don’t have to go to a museum or art gallery to interact with contemporary art,” said Dr. Harry Bleattler, Chair of the Program in Media, Culture, and the Arts. “They’re able to do that on the walls right outside of their classroom doors. Having Wayne Adam’s work on campus adds a layer of beauty and meaning to our physical environment and our conversations. I look forward to this being a regular aspect of campus life.”

“No matter how you feel about the new art on campus, I’m excited that our students are not indifferent,” said Eric Bennett, Vice President for Student Life at King’s. “It’s a sign that we are not a shrinking community of spectators; rather, we are those who care deeply about the Good and the Beautiful. As such, Wayne Adam’s work is a vehicle contributing to that conversation. Like Francis Bacon said, ‘The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.’”

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