Jupiter Miami is pleased to present Serenity Now, a solo exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Adam Himebauch (b.1983).
Throughout his career, Adam Himebauch has built quite the reputation as a prankster; first, as street artist ‘Hanksy’, then through his social media performance works Back to the Future and Never Ever Land. His persona, for better or worse, often precedes his paintings. For his forthcoming exhibition Serenity Now, Himebauch’s stunt is that there is no stunt. Instead, he shocks us with the simplicity of a new series of monochromatic landscapes inspired by pre-urban Miami and a recent trip to Jamaica.
The monochromatic landscape is not a new subject for the artist. In 2020, Himebauch, who is self-taught, created a series of hyper saturated and highly rendered forest-scapes as a way to prove, mostly to himself, that he could paint. These paintings became the visual backbone of his performance work Back to the Future, which was an experiment in media time travel that manifested in a largely black and white instagram feed punctuated by these intensely vibrant paintings.