Christopher Adams

Christopher Adams creates surrealistic ceramics that resemble familiar flora and fauna but are wholly the fruits of the artist’s imagination. Typically assembled as sprawling wall installations, his biomorphic works draw on his extensive scientific knowledge to create worlds of his own devising. In 2006, Adams publicly presented his works for the first time at the SCOPE Art Show in New York; his booth sold out and received critical acclaim from the New York Times. Adams studied biology at Harvard University. His lifelong interest in naturalia has led him to collect insects in Madagascar, curate displays and create illustrations for a zoology museum, and design zoos and aquariums in partnership with an architecture firm. Biological concepts like speciation and convergence inform his beguiling glazed creatures, which are made in porcelain, terracotta, and stoneware. Featuring radiating tentacular or leafy forms, Adams’s organisms sit comfortably in their own world, crawling, blooming, and wriggling in harmony.