source: highlike
Statement: Adam Ekberg was born in Boston Massachusetts, he received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Adam’s recently had solo-exhibitions at Fotografiska, Stockholm Sweden; Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago; Platform Gallery, Seattle and DeSoto Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions of Adam’s work include, Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angles; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; ClampArt, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ireland. Adam’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He is the recipient of a 2013 Tanne Foundation Award. Adam lives with his spouse and dog along the Delaware River in western New Jersey.
Work: The New Collectors Book, Featured Artist, (January 2014) “Light,” Diorama Magazine (October 2013) “Summer Magic: This Artweek.LA,” The Huffington Post, (August 30, 2013) Spotlight artist, Harvard Business Review (June 2012) “Photographic Documentation of Ephemeral Occurrences,” Conveyor Magazine (June 2012) Jason Foumberg, “Snapshots in Chicago: Adam Ekberg at Thomas Robertello Gallery,” Photograph Magazine (January/February 2012) The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume 2 (Humble Arts Foundation, New York, 2010).
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source: adamekberg

In calculated performances that intersect with photography’s documentary potential, I explore ephemeral occurrences. Making such humble events happen is alchemy of sorts, the transformation of the mundane into the poignant. Within the constructed images, I reposition specific celebratory iconography to create minor spectacles. My process requires detailed and elaborate production outside the photographic frame so that what appears within the frame implies simplicity and straightforwardness. It is important to me that these constructions actually exist in the world, if only for the moment in which the photograph is made.
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source: lenscratch

I first came across Adam Ekberg’s work in a contemporary photography book that my instructor gave me during my junior year at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. The playfulness of the work immediately drew me in and kept me interested. Adam performs for the camera by staging his images to create an event for the viewer, resulting in photographic stills of small spectacles.

Adam Ekberg received his MFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Adam recently had solo exhibitions at Platform Gallery in Seattle, Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago and ClampArt in New York City. His work is in collections at The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

In calculated performances that intersect with photography’s documentary potential, I explore ephemeral occurrences. Making such humble events happen is alchemy of sorts, the transformation of the mundane into the poignant. Within the constructed images, I reposition specific celebratory iconography to create minor spectacles. My process requires detailed and elaborate production outside the photographic frame so that what appears within the frame implies simplicity and straightforwardness. It is important to me that these constructions actually exist in the world, if only for the moment in which the photograph is made.
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source: floresenelaticoes

Me gusta el trabajo fotográfico de Adam Ekberg, un artistas que trabaja con lo éfimero y humilde, transformando momentos mundanos en realmente conmovedores.

Banales objetos como globos, mecheros, sombrillas de cocktail, bolas de discoteca, pompas de jabón, pequeños fuegos, se transformas, gracias a su talento, en protagonistas de fascinantes escenas.

Montajes de aspecto falso que se nos desvelan como honestas y conmovedoras imágenes.