Adrian Huth
About
Adrian Huth started painting in 1996 after graduating from Miami University of Ohio with a degree in Interdisciplinary Philosophy. Except for early mentorship from Jim Lee (a college friend who moved out with him to San Diego after graduation), Adrian is self-taught in both the technical application and historical knowledge of painting. After years of pursuits in multiple creative disciplines he is now focused exclusively on painting. Current works focus on compositions in the genres of non-representational, landscape, and figurative form. Works can be seen in galleries across Southern California and publications both Nationally and Internationally.
Artist Statement
If a scale existed where on one end there was maximum “abstraction” and on the other end maximum “realism”- the results of my work would fall somewhere in the middle. At times, I might lean more one way or the other, but usually I keep the form(s) or the object of view(s) from completely disintegrating yet abandon the majority of details a realist wouldn’t dare consider removing. That said, I’m not completely alienating the idea either of what the original form had of interest to me in the first place. The colors and shapes from a nature scene, the curves of bodies in some kind of movement or the energy from crowds of people in a religious parade. In this context, my work as a painter is “form” based executed as an “idea”.
The word ‘form’ usually refers to the external shape, appearance, or configuration of an object. For Plato, the Theory of Ideas or Theory of Forms is often interchangeable with the physical world as the inferior comparison. He considered the physical world “not as real or true as timeless, absolute, unchangeable ideas.” Are the “forms” and figurative content that inspire my work the “ideas”? Is my inspiration from the physical world (both “real” and digitally sourced) realized as a painting - an idea and in a higher domain from the original experience? Is the execution itself the “idea”? Or is it the reverse and just the famous “shadow” from Plato’s cave? The answer, at least in my work, seems to be somewhere in between.