Kendrick Adams

Art for art’s sake.
So many artists use their art to make a political statement or to add another voice to a cause. I am all for bringing the public to face their moral and social responsibility. I did that for many years as an illustrator.

But I have embraced a new perspective since I left illustration and returned to fine art. I now make art for the sake of art. Beauty for beauty. Curiosity for the curious. You will see it in my subjects. In my lighting. Even in my brushstrokes. I want to create beauty. Oh, on a rare occasion I will be ironic, even sarcastic—like my three- part “Instagram series.” But I know that art for art’s sake will endure. In one hundred years people will forget today’s issues, and most of the art that protests against it. But they will forever marvel at the beauty that a brush full of paint can reveal on a pure-white canvas. If you agree, we are a good match.

I have a bachelor's and masters-neither in art. But I did take all art course available in high school, and studied one Summer at DeWaters art museum (where I saw my first Renoir!) I also studied Art Instruction Schools curriculum. I am like a sponge soaking up every art image I can find from the many museums I have visited (including the Louvre-twice) to the internet. Otherwise I am self taught. Working as a graphic artist, and later teaching High School art, taught me much about what is, and is not, art.

In Spring 2025, my painting "Gardenias in Glasses" won first place in the category of "flowers and still lifes" at the Arkansas League of Artists exhibition and contest.

I have exhibited at DeWaters in Flint, MI, the 1894 Gallery in Texarkana, AR and the Clinton Museum at Hope, AR. I also have a presence on Coroflot, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.