Adam DeSorbo is an artist from upstate New York currently living in Oregon where he is an Instructor of Photography at Oregon State University. Adam’s work and research explore the intersections of photography, craft, and ecological thought. His work investigates how material processes and image-making can trace human and environmental entanglements, drawing on methods such as re-photography, installation, woodworking, and writing. His work has been exhibited nationally at both museums and galleries, such as the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon Contemporary, View Arts Center, and had a public billboard in downtown Eugene, Oregon through the Center for Art Research. He holds a B.S. in Environmental Studies from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and an MFA in Art from the University of Oregon.
adam.desorbo@gmail.com | 518 527 2709
There is a paradox that is at heart of making. To build is to witness decay and make new from it. To preserve is to acknowledge loss, to acknowledge what we wish to save. In the end, I know I can’t stop time or fire or forgetting, but I can make a space to exist among it all. Everything is brief, yet everything lives on. My work is never at its end. Maybe it’s a beginning, maybe it’s a fragment of something yet to come, maybe it will shift in the world’s flux and my own uncertain self. Maybe it’s just a record of now, or maybe it’s what processing the world looks like in this moment. And so I keep making, guided by what remains unknown.