Adam Farcus                                                                                                                              artist
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To find your way among the stars, choose some familiar pattern
as a starting point and gradually work your way from one star
group to another.

Menzel, Donald H.  A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 104.

learn to disrupt things, in a way that doesn't take anything away
steve roden (from a studio visit) 2009

I carry at least one lucky penny in my left pocket at all times. It might not actually bring me luck but, as a site of potential energy, it does make me feel better. The objects I create in my practice are equally imbued with an internal power. Though subjects such as death, joy, poetry, identity, and belief, my work elevates the banal to unexpected heights while simultaneously placing the magical in an accessible, even common, realm. The goal is to always do the most obvious thing in the most surprising way.




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National - exhibition curated by Adam Farcus, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL - 2010
Performing Playce: Artist Interventions in Public Space - panel discussion abstract - Performance Studies International 16, Performing Publics - York University, Toronto, Canada - 2010
Polaris - Ainsworth Gallery, Joliet, IL - 2010 - Adam Farcus and Erica Moore
it only has to work once - exhibition curated by Adam Farcus