Adam Weisblatt

When I was ten, I was given a book on how to draw animal cartoons. I never stopped. People asked me "Does it really have to be animal cartoons?" Yes it does. Even my doodle-based abstract art has that energy of anthropomorphized cartoons. I looked at the cave paintings of Lascaux. What are they but animal cartoons? It is a primal act. Cartooning is a language. It is a set of codes for describing space-time, energy and matter, emotions and states of mind. My cartooning is inspired by the early comic book artists who adapted the ancient art for the new media. Later, I saw graffiti based art that used the codex of cartoons, to free public expression from the media. My cartoons were freed from the limitations of paper and I splattered them across surfaces covered in spray-paint. The scenes my cartoons inhabit are stages. As a recovering performance artist I know that we are all putting on a show every day. We don cartoon masks and shift in and out of the layers of our morphing world views.

School of Visual Arts

2016 Bridgeport Art Trail, Bridgeport, CT
2010-2011: The Gallery Upstairs Fairfield, CT
2009 Group show at Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT
2008: City Lights Gallery – “Off the Wall/On the Wall” – Curator and Participant
2006-2007: City-wide Open Studios Alternative Space: New Haven, CT
2005: Greater Expo at The NEST; Bridgeport, CT
1990: Solo exhibition at Bryn Mawr College: Bryn Mawr, PA