Adam Frelin

{{short description|American sculptor}}

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Adam Frelin (born 1973) is an American artist working in sculpture.,{{cite web|url=http://chesterwood.org/csc-2013/|title=Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood 2013|work=chesterwood.org|access-date=2015-03-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922145237/http://chesterwood.org/csc-2013/|archive-date=2017-09-22|url-status=dead}} video, photography,Fulford, Jason and Halpern, Greg (editors). The Photographer's Playbook Aperture, 2014. and performance. He received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. He has shown at venues such as the Getty Center,{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/visit/events/reckless_behavior.html|title=Reckless Behavior (Visit the Getty)|work=getty.edu}} Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.aldrichart.org/exhibitions/past/riverhalfempty.php|title=The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: A River Half Empty|work=aldrichart.org}} I-Park Foundation,{{cite web|url=http://www.i-park.org/special-programs/frelin-2013ea|title=Adam Frelin|work=i-park.org}} the Columbus Museum,{{cite web|url=http://artdaily.com/news/30071/Magnetic-Landscape--An-Exhibition-of-Contemporary-Video-Art-on-View-at-the-Columbus-Museum#.VRDIfWZiYzx|title=Magnetic Landscape: An Exhibition of Contemporary Video Art on View at the Columbus Museum|author=Ignacio Villarreal|work=artdaily.com}} Samson Projects{{cite web|url=http://www.samsonprojects.com/past/item/79-adam-frelin-winners-factions-thieves-march-21-may-3-2008|title=Adam Frelin: Winners, Factions & Thieves, March 21 – May 3, 2008|work=samsonprojects.com}} Evergreen House{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081400845.html|title=Nature Pushes Back Against Man|work=washingtonpost.com}} and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.{{cite web|url=http://camstl.org/exhibitions/main-gallery/great-rivers-biennial-2004/|title=Great Rivers Biennial 2004|author=TOKY Branding + Design|work=camstl.org}}

Frelin's work is known for its usage of place and impermanence, informed by extensive travel, though he does not consider himself an environmental artist. "Since I don’t have a big white room to show work in, I make it outside," he told St. Louis Post-Dispatch art critic David Bonetti in 2006. "When I began travelling, I found that it was advantageous to not interrupt what I saw by putting it through my own filtering system. I’ve learned to isolate and concentrate attention of perceived phenomenon. The more you train your eye in that direction, the better you get at it".{{cite web|url=http://www.contemporary-magazines.com/profile79_3.htm |title=Adam Frelin profile |work=Contemporary Magazines |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104002658/http://www.contemporary-magazines.com/profile79_3.htm |archivedate=2009-01-04 }}

In 2000, while completing his second and final year of graduate school, Frelin received a National Endowment for the Arts College Art Association Fellowship. A year later, he became a visiting artist and then a faculty member at Webster University in St. Louis, MO.{{Cite web |url=http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/caa-news-07-02.pdf |title=College Art Association Newsletter, Volume 27, No. 4, July 2002 |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203030152/http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/caa-news-07-02.pdf |archive-date=2012-02-03 |url-status=dead }} In 2004 he received an award from the Gateway Foundation for his installations White Heat and Things Airborne.{{cite web|url=http://www.gateway-foundation.org/GreatRiversBiennial-WhiteHeat.aspx|title=Gateway Foundation|work=gateway-foundation.org}} He has also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Of Frelin's 2006 work, The Mirroring Stone, a gravestone made of polished steel, Boston Globe Correspondent Cait McQuaid said: "Walking past, the reflection of grass and other monuments reads like a dizzying warp in your vision. Stop and focus, and you'll discover your own reflection, a chilling reminder that in the end, all that will be left of you is a marker on your grave".{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/08/18/from_here_to_eternity|title=From Here To Eternity|work=The Boston Globe}}

In 2007, Frelin participated in two international commissions. The United States Embassy, Japan, commissioned Frelin for an art installation in Tokyo, Japan. The project, White Line (Tokyo), consisted of lighting instruments suspended along an arching steel cable, was installed in the garden of the International House of Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.americansforthearts.org/by-program/public-art-network/pan-year-in-review/white-line-tokyo|title=White Line (Tokyo) – Americans for the Arts|work=americansforthearts.org}} The Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, commissioned Frelin and two others to travel to Ukraine and produce works based on the experience, which were later exhibited in Los Angeles.{{cite web|url=http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/4865-connecting-in-kyiv|title=- Adam Frelin|work=Artslant}}File:White Line (Wyoming).jpg

In 2008, the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibited a series of Frelin's video work as part of the Media Projects 2008 exhibit. "With an over-the-river-and-through-the-woods storybook feel," said the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Mary Louise Schumacher, "Frelin's works are filled with pilgrimages and a sense of place"{{cite web|url=http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/35157059.html|title=Art in the Here and Now|work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel}}

Frelin has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,{{cite web|url=http://www.skowheganart.org/alumni-search|title=Search|work=Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture}} MacDowell Colony,{{Cite web |url=http://www.macdowellcolony.org/MacDowellNews-Winter2005.pdf |title=MacDowell News, Vol. 2 No. 34, Winter 2005 |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20060330013713/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/MacDowellNews-Winter2005.pdf |archive-date=2006-03-30 |url-status=dead }} Ucross Foundation,{{cite web |url=http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/partnerships/alpert-awards-in-the-arts/alpert-awards-fellows/ |title=Ucross Foundation :: Alpert Awards Fellows |website=www.ucrossfoundation.org |access-date=26 January 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150418005205/http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/partnerships/alpert-awards-in-the-arts/alpert-awards-fellows/ |archive-date=18 April 2015 |url-status=dead}} Fine Arts Work Center,{{cite web|url=http://www.fawc.org/fellowships/past_fel.php|title=FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN|work=fawc.org|access-date=2015-03-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528020734/http://www.fawc.org/fellowships/past_fel.php|archive-date=2015-05-28|url-status=dead}} Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts{{cite web|url=http://www.bemiscenter.org/art/past_section/adam_frelin.html|title=Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts : Exhibitions : Past Exhibitions : Adam Frelin: DIVINER – Gallery 2|work=bemiscenter.org}} among others. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY.{{cite web|url=http://www.albany.edu/finearts/frelin.shtml/ |title=University at Albany - SUNY - |accessdate=2015-03-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224013333/http://www.albany.edu/finearts/frelin.shtml |archivedate=2015-02-24 }}

He participated in 2013's Art in Odd Places festival with a performance piece, KODAMAZOTHGOLEMNKISI{{cite web|url=http://www.artinoddplaces.org/aiop-number-adam-frelin-unleashes-kodamazothgolemnkisi/|title=AiOP Number: Adam Frelin unleashes "KODAMAZOTHGOLEMNKISI" – Art in Odd Places|work=artinoddplaces.org}}

In 2014, Frelin's Crier appeared as part of The Last Billboard installation by Pittsburgh artist Jon Rubin.{{cite web|url=http://triblive.com/lifestyles/morelifestyles/6300368-74/billboard-rubin-says#axzz3VGIpS3Wf|title='Last Billboard' project shares ponderable messages|work=TribLIVE.com}} The text of his billboard installation reads "Let's put loudspeakers on the roofs of hospitals/Let's announce births and deaths as they occur".{{cite web|url=http://www.thelastbillboard.com/post/85092084656/adam-frelin|title=- Adam Frelin|work=thelastbillboard.com}} In December, his work was exhibited at the Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, alongside artist Rena Leinberger in a show titled From Within the Flesh of the World.{{cite web|url=http://artefuse.com/2014/12/21/transformed-from-within-at-radiator-gallery-123816/|title=Adam Frelin and Rena Leinberger: From Within the Flesh of the World at Radiator Arts Gallery – Arte Fuse – online, art blog, art blog new york, art magazine, art magazine new york, manhattan, contemporary, online, art, artists, magazine, gallery, galleries, news, openings, fairs, new york city|work=Arte Fuse}}

In February 2015, Frelin and co-artist Barbara Nelson were selected by Bloomberg Philanthropies as one of 12 finalists for the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge. Their project, on behalf of three upstate New York cities, proposes to illuminate the windows of vacant buildings in New York's Capital Region.{{cite web|url=http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Breathing-Lights-among-art-finalists-6117882.php|title='Breathing Lights' among art finalists|work=Times Union|date=6 March 2015 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2015/03/05/albany-schenectady-troy-in-running-for-1-million.html|title=Albany, Schenectady, Troy in running for $1 million Bloomberg art award|date=5 March 2015|work=Albany Business Review}} In June 2015, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced that their proposal was selected for funding, with an award amount of up to $1 million.{{cite web|url=http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/albany-schenectady-and-troy-named-bloomberg-public-art-winner/38255/|title=Albany, Schenectady and Troy Named Bloomberg Public Art winner|work=Times Union|date=23 June 2015 }}