About the artist and his work

Adam Maeroff's journey as an artist began as a young child as a way of communicating because he is learning disabled. Upon moving from Cleveland to NYC at age seven he began to paint the world around him, which often included street scenes, rides on the train to and from Manhattan from the border of Queens, as well as the area around Times Square where his father worked as a journalist. By his early teens nature started making an appearance in his work due to his going on regular camping trips with a school program for learning disabled kids. Adams art began to change with this development, becoming looser, and his including far more artistic license. By the time he was 15, the artist left home on Long Island to start his life solo. He continued to work toward a high school diploma, while working full time as a vending machine attendant in the Twin Towers, as well as a cook and baker for several NYC restaurants when they needed extra help, amongst other things. He also continued painting, which often meant of the side of tunnels and trains in order to get his work seen. By age seventeen that portfolio gained Adam entry into design school in Philadelphia. Over the next several decades the artist worked as a designer on and off between trips abroad painting while backpacking around the globe where he worked from place to place as a deck hand, farmer, truck driver, cook and baker. During this period his art began to change further, as Adam began to focus not only on what was in front of him, but also what he saw beyond that, and how he felt about it. This quickly morphed into a trend that many people in the art world consider transcendence, post impressionist, visionary, or a host of other art genre labels.

Today, Adam lives in Western Pennsylvania, a base which allows him easy access up and down the Appalachians, an old friend from his early days starting out with nature.

Its a region of rolling hills, rust, small towns and interesting atmospherics. Adam loves to paint plein air, but also back in the studio where he relies on memory to compose his view. He also does lots of figurative work the same way, as well as on the road abroad.

When Adam isn't painting, he loves traveling and spending time in the wilderness with his lovely wife and two adult children. He is a life long practitioner of southern Chinese and Philippino martial arts, a woodworker, and an avid reader and writer thanks to a teacher who taught Adam how to do so using his art skills to memorize the shape of words.