These prints are from an ongoing series of self-portraits. The portraits express a sense of tension, disillusion, wonderment, and uncertainty that occurs in everyday life. Night Sweats is about the universal experience of lying in bed thinking – maybe worrying, maybe anxious, maybe excited – about something that weighs on you. Father and Son is about the artist and his own son, the inevitability of the passage of time, and an understanding that things grow, things pass on, and life is constantly in flux.

 

Adam Finkelston is an artist, educator, and publisher based in Prairie Village, Kansas. He has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, a BA in Art Education from the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC), and an MA in Photography from UMKC where he studied with Elijah Gowin. Finkelston is currently a first-year MFA candidate at Lesley University’s College of Art and Design in the Photography and Integrated Media program.

 

Finkelston’s work has been exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and is included in publications on alternative process photography by notable authors, Jill Enfield and Christina Z. Anderson. Finkelston has taught art at various levels for 18 years. Currently, he is a guest lecturer in printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute as well as a teacher and visual arts department coordinator at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, KS. In addition to teaching, Finkelston is the owner and publisher of, The Hand Magazine: A Magazine for Reproduction-based Arts, through which he has curated and juried numerous exhibitions.

 

Visit his website at adamfinkelston.com or connect with him on Instagram @adamfinkelstonart.