Titled “Spatial Reduction”, this is Adam Lister’s special soon-to-be-exhibited series. The artist composes and breaks down the most famous pop figures in art history and beyond to create a unique portrait in his inimitable pixelated style.

My process deals with taking the memory of an image and highlighting its complexity and simplicity at the same time. These paintings are influenced by geometric thinking and a desire to capture the briefness of a mental picture.

Every day we are bombarded with images of all kinds, whether from the internet or television, they pass in front of us without us even realizing it. So the New York born artist made the decision to deconstruct and simplify them to get rid of all the distractions.

Guided by the transparency of his watercolor Adam Lister relies on acrylic painting and comes to create his compositions that we could call cubist if we lived in the early 1900s.
But the inspiration also comes from old video games, impossible not to notice the similarity of his creations with the old but famous 8-bit games.

The paintings are influenced by geometric thinking and the desire to capture the simplicity of an image or a famous character

A unique style, a way to admire a portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa or Takashi Murakami from a different perspective, here are all the photos.

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