About Adam Hall:
As a visual artist, Adam Hall began working mostly with charcoals and oils. Self-taught, he attempts to mix traditional style with contemporary. Using palette knives and layering techniques he creates a true richness and depth to his work. Adam believes every painting is his next opportunity in truly expressing his vision and vibe through landscape. “Art is such a powerful tool and I strive to use it in the most positive way I know how.”
While his passion for art began growing up in Wellsburg, West Virginia, his professional artistic career began nearly two decades ago in Nashville. When he was not on the road touring with bands all over the world, Adam slowly became involved with a local design firm whose clientele took great interest and demand for his art. Eventually, he started working full time with major record labels and recording artists in Nashville, all the while pursuing his dream to become a full-time artist.
Today, his work has been represented in galleries all over the United States and has been featured in such magazines as American Art Collector Magazine & Fine Art Connoisseur. Adam Hall proudly resides in Nashville, TN, with his wife Thais. Adam spends most of his time in his studio in Historic Franklin and continues to discover a fulfilling purpose through art.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- The benefits of technology during COVID
- Adam’s early career in the music industry
- Utilizing elements from outside fields of study and incorporating them into your artistic practice
- Adding different experiences and tools to your “toolkit”
- Adam’s changing perspectives on painting
- The dynamic of a career vs. a hobby
- Being disciplined and producing organic results
- Healthy competition
- Surrounding yourself with individuals who are greater than you
- Humility
- Faith and understanding how it relates to our experiences
- Being in a constant state of questioning
- The notion of personal truth(s)
- Religion and ideologies
- Inclusivity and exclusivity
- Remaining open to other aspects of the world
- Adam’s experiences traveling to Africa
- Morality and ethics
- Intentions behind our actions
- The meaning behind Adam’s ocean paintings
- The emotion that translates through a person’s artwork
- Adam’s experiences as a father
- Micro-decisions within our daily lives
- Striving creatively through parenting
- “Current Journeys”
Links:
www.artistdecoded.com
www.adamhallart.com
www.instagram.com/adamhallart
Jeffrey Martin Zacks, American psychology educator, member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, and the Cognitive Science Society.
His book, Flicker: Your Brain on Movies, delves into the history of cinema and the latest research to explain what happens in your brain when you sit down in the theatre and the lights go out.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- How the brain helps us think perceive and aid us in solving problems
- Mirror neurons
- The impact that film has on it’s viewers
- Mimicking attributes of the brain and how it specifically helps us in daily life
- Film perception
- Evoking and implementing cues for specific responses within films
- “The willing suspension of belief”
- Kids viewing violent films and how it affects them when they are adults
- Mindset and engagement
- Age and films
- Neuroplasticity
- The “nimble brain”
- The brain’s development and how we can shift the way we think in order to retain a greater amount of plasticity
- Movies and the brain’s correspondence with what we are visualizing
- “Feeling” what we are viewing
- Creating plots and narratives that affect your emotion
- The power of non-analytical effects
- The documentary “The Social Dilemma”, and Jeff’s views on the way technology is progressing
- “What are you subscribing to?”
- Children and social media
- Reflecting on how we use social media and how it influences our brain and habits
Self-taught, David Uzochukwu (b. 1998, Austria) creates (self-)portraits that speak of both placelessness and belonging. His work sees bodies shifting through nature, performance, and digital reconfiguration. Uzochukwu’s photographs have been exhibited at Bozar, Photo Vogue Festival, and Unseen Amsterdam. He has collaborated with artists FKA twigs, Pharrell, and Iris Van Herpen, and received commissions by Dior and Hermès. Since 2019, he is a participant of CPH:DOX’s talent development program. British Journal of Photography named him One to Watch in 2020. He currently lives in Berlin, where he pursues his first degree in philosophy.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- David’s development and obsession with photography
- Looking at other photographers work and being inspired
- Distraction and aesthetic within David’s work
- Emotions and the expression of an image
- David’s photography process
- Finding your signature approach
- Navigating your youth, and standing your ground
- Leaning into your intuition
- Organic transition within artwork
- Simplicity
- Swallowing your feelings and fighting to have your needs met
- Finding your artistic voice and rooting yourself within that
- David’s interest in philosophy
- Ethics and practical reasoning for the things that you do
- Aesthetics being used as a “glazing” to your art
- Masculinity and the roles of gender
- Strength and vulnerability
- Futurism
- Getting to the point of reflecting your opinions within your art
- Bias
- The future for Davids self-portraiture and photography