Adam Cvijanovic was born on 1959 in Cambridge, Massachusetts currently lives and Works in New York.Drawing inspiration from Renaissance fresco painting, Adam Cvijanovic’s ‘portable murals’ depict contemporary landscapes with a sense of celestial awe. Spanning 75 feet, Cvijanovic’s Love Poem captures the dreamy and disquieting essence of suburban Americana as a rapturous science fiction tableau. Envisioning sun-bleached L.A. ten minutes after the end of gravity, Cvijanovic’s utopia ascends in a whirlwind of consumerist ecstasy. Emulating movie backdrops as well as the acclivous perspective of cathedral dome tromp l’oiels, Love Poem… combines the sublime horror of disaster films with a majestic religiosity, as bungalows, Broncos, and palm trees are destroyed in the exaltation of their own perfectness. Painted entirely by the artist without assistants, on a plastic used by Fed Ex, Cvijavovic’s work reconstitutes the intimacy of timeless artistry with a modern day immediacy.

Stemming from his former job as a commercial muralist, Adam Cvijanovic’s paintings combine pop kitsch with the gravitas of historical painting. Completely self-taught, Cvijanovic approaches painting with an unconventional process: using a variety of acrylic and latex household paints on Tyvek, his vast images become transportable frescoes, giant architectural interventions that can be remodelled to fit various gallery spaces. Subverting the utopian connotations of monumental painting, Cvijanivic’s tableaux embrace the serene and idyllic while portraying haunting scenes of desolation.SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Solo Exhibition,

2005 • Hammer museum, Los Angeles • Love Poem (10 Minutes After the End of Gravity,) Bellwether, New York

2004 • Ideal City, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

2003 • Hurricane Party, Bellwether, Brooklyn

2002 • New City, Project, Steven Sclaroff New York • Disko Bay," Bellwether, Brooklyn

1999 • Richard Anderson, New York

1994 • Richard Anderson, New York

1993 • Richard Anderson, New York

1991 • Richard Anderson, New York

1988 • Bess Cutler Gallery, New York • Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago • Malony Gallery Santa Monica

1986 • Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York • Stavaridis Gallery, Boston • Brockton Art Museum, Brockton

1885 • Bess Cutler Gallery, New York • Stavaridis Gallery, Boston MA

Conclusions:

Adam Cvijanovic, who has been exhibiting since the mid-1980s and is now represented by Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, is gaining increasing praise for large-scale, deftly done illustrational landscapes and other scenes, ranging from cowboys in the West to a beach thronged with young people (he was also featured in the traveling "On the Wall" exhibition organized last year by RISD Museum's Judith Tannenbaum).