Artist Statement
The utilization of digital technology is central to my artistic practice. Nearly everything that I produce either begins with a pen on paper or is a reflection of that process when I draw directly on a computer. I ponder the digital mark and wonder how, even when we live in a time of radical shifts in the ontological and epistemological framework through which we understand the world, can the physical, empirical manifestation of a simple mark become something other as well? A digital mark is not physical, nor does it necessarily possess a simulacral quality. A drawing one makes directly in a computer obviously cannot be dismissed as not being original, but a digital file is recursive and can be copied precisely an infinite number of times -- to the point of rendering the very idea of an original obsolete, perhaps even absurd.  I’m interested in what a drawing can become and how far it can be pushed specifically with the use of digital imaging technology.   

The technique that I use to draw is a process that keeps me centered and focused in ways that others have not. It is in the act of drawing that I feel most present. The act, for me, is a meditation. It is this idea that lead me from making primarily illustrative and representational work to abstract work that explores line and form. Lines on paper have become lines on paper so to speak. It is in doing this work that I’ve become more conscious of the phenomenological aspects of what I’m working towards, and how it might be approached by a viewer. I think about the idea of really seeing something beyond passive viewing, instead making the process about what one brings with them when they look at any work of art.

We don’t experience anything in a vacuum. Everything we experience is affected by the cumulative experiences we bring to the specific moment we engage the work in front of us. I think of my drawings as voids that take on a meaning that is specific to the viewer -- in a sense they, like most things we encounter in life, are like a mirror revealing only what they see and not necessarily what I’ve made in the empirical sense. 

Artist Bio / CV
Born, 1975, Pittsburgh, PA

EDUCATION

Alfred University -- MFA, Electronic Integrated Arts, 2006
Kansas City Art Institute -- BFA, Photo/New Media & Art History, 2004

EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2010

Skylarking: New Marker Drawings by Adam Hinterlang & David Staniunas, It Looks Like It’s Open Gallery, Columbus, OH
Kenyon College Faculty Art Exhibition, Olin Gallery, Gambier, OH
Spreading the Influence, Olin Gallery, Gambier, OH

2009

Workers Holiday: Collaborative Drawings By Adam Hinterlang & David Staniunas, Installation Art Bldg, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

2008

Men on Maps, Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY

2007

July, Bronx MAP (Media Arts and Performance), curator, Bronx, NY
April, Bronx MAP, curator and participant, Bronx, NY

2006

Media Art Festival Friesland, Friesland, The Netherlands
Alfred On 25th Street, Florence Lynch Gallery, Chelsea, New York City
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, NYSCC at Alfred University
Upstate New York Graduate Exhibition, RIT Gallery, Rochester, New York
Magmart: Video Under the Volcano, Naples, Italy

2005

Havana Media Art Exhibition, Havana, Cuba

2004

Prattsburg Show, The Loop Gallery, Prattsburg, NY
Grand Opening of Screenland, Kansas City, MO
Scope LA, Los Angeles, CA
Twilight in the Field of Reason, Green Door Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Stray Show, Chicago, IL
Make Your Own Fun, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
KCAI BFA Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

2003

The Work of Adam Hinterlang, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
One Night Stand, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO
KCAI Spring Video Show, Fahrenheit Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2002

1+1=1, Hobbes Building, Kansas City, MO
Beyond the Flatland, Green Door Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Fall Video Show, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO


COLLECTIONS

Dr. John Ryan
SUNY Chancellor
Central Administration
SUNY Albany
Albany, New York

Dr. Betty Capaldi
SUNY Vice Chancellor
Central Admnistration
SUNY Albany
Albany, New York

Dr. Carl Weizalis
President of the SUNY Faculty Senate
Central Administration
SUNY Albany
Albany, New York