WOAW Gallery, Singapore

McAdoo’s first solo exhibition in Singapore.</p><p>Notably, Melting Boulevard marks developments in McAdoo’s visual language as he incorporates ideas from crucial Eastern thinkers into his landscape painting. This culminates in McAdoo’s inclusion of the number zero in his paintings, with mathematician Brahmagupta having written the rules for its use in the 7th Century. "I see zero as a representation of my Indian identity. Zero is different than other numbers, it’s a philosophical idea representing nothingness. It can be added to itself infinite times and stay the same,” the artist muses.</p><p>Picturesque symbols of the American suburb, such as foliage-lined streets, sprawling houses boasting lawns, and sleek cars fill McAdoo’s paintings. Soaked in the glow of vibrant, sunset-tinged skies, these idyllic scenes reference how he, born to an Indo- Caribbean family, grew up in Bellingham, Washington, a mostly white town in the Pacific Northwest. Beyond possessing an autobiographical slant, his depictions of these landscapes in America (many of which were historically ‘white-only’ neighbourhoods) assert his identity as a multiracial brown American.</p><p><br></p>" />

Daniel Fleur</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Duri-Baek/3F4CFCD3C2731A54">Duri Baek</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Elena-Rivera-Montanes/A8784324838A717B">Elena Rivera-Montanes</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Karel-Dicker/23963C45456558A6">Karel Dicker</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Marian-Ang/11AF7E75D093D143">Marian Ang</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Miho-Ichise/9EDF3D1C195BA589">Miho Ichise</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Mizuki-Nishiyama/AE1B6EAEA7ED231B">Mizuki Nishiyama</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Nina-Silverberg/1435FA99BA6C97A1">Nina Silverberg</a> and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Gallery/WOAW-Gallery--Singapore/"/Artist/Novo/FEC41415227690D1">Novo.

A Quiet Room, A Place in Your Heart is an exploration of the intimate spaces that hold significance in our lives, whether they are real, materialised from memory, or imagined. Through various stylistic and compositional approaches, and a spectrum of interpretations to the title of the show, the works in this exhibition create a new dialogue on the role of the artist's psyche in contemporary painting.</p><p>What unites these diverse works is a shared sense of yearning — for a place of quiet to contemplate, express, reflect, and celebrate the personal and the every day, the mundane and the dramatic alike. The purpose of capturing these intimate places in paint goes beyond mere representation, it is a means of elevating and imbuing each scene with narrative depth, transforming the way we see and think about these comfort spaces — a place in our hearts.</p><p><br></p>" />