Today we’d like to introduce you to Adam Cutler.
Adam, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
My first real passion for art developed as I was growing up in Maine and became infatuated with drawing monsters inspired by my love of video games and comic books. I desperately wanted to be an illustrator in comics, but as I got older my interest began to shift more towards music as I began playing in metal bands. Naturally, I created all of the art for my own group and subsequently a lot of the other bands we met. This shifted my career aspirations to the world of graphic design and I relocated to the Boston-area to pursue a higher education in it.
After graduating college and spending several years as a professional designer (and continuing to provide artwork for bands on a freelance basis under my own studio Motionless Visions), I began to feel detached from the discipline of illustration and personal work that made me fall in love with art in the first place. So, I made the concentrated effort to start a new project called Monday Mosh Monsters.
By pushing myself to reconnect with the first art subject I ever loved and start every week by creating a piece just for me, I reinvigorated by illustrative muscles and have since incorporated it back into every other creative aspect of my career. Nearly a decade after making that commitment, I find myself illustrating just as much as designing and devoting more time to my personal development than ever before.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
My art fully captures my love of comics and music in a bold style that’s sometimes creepy, sometimes whimsical, and frequently both. Much like when I write music, I want to create art that I would love to see and feels authentic to me. With a lot of my personal work, there’s rarely a deeper meaning injected into my pieces…I tend to just pull from my own inspiration and experiences to draw something in a somewhat stream of consciousness manner. This manifests in a genuine style which I think is what a lot of my fans and collectors connect with.
In your view, what is the biggest issue artists have to deal with?
In a time when social media is such a critical component of maintaining a creative career, I think everyone is so focused on making sure each new thing they create has increasing engagement and upward trajectory that too many artists are afraid to take risks. Even worse, I think when something doesn’t perform as well as they’d like then that failure makes a lot of people spiral. While I certainly don’t downplay the value of visibility on your work and striving for every new piece to be your best, I think almost everyone vastly overestimates the eyes that are watching their every move. It’s more than ok to fail, you just have to learn from it. Taking big risks that ultimately lead to the best work of your career will make those little missteps along the way completely irrelevant.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
You can follow both my endeavors with Motionless Visions and Monday Mosh Monsters all over social media as well as specifically at www.motionlessvisions.com and www.mondaymoshmonsters.com. On those websites you can also find my online store to purchase prints and original drawings, as well as a subscription program to my partnership with TurnGram where you can have Monday Mosh Monsters prints sourced directly from my Instagram delivered to you every month!
I also vend at a lot of art fairs and concerts in the area and exhibit frequently with Arts Worcester, so if you ever catch me at an event please say hello!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.motionlessvisions.com
- Email: adam@motionlessvisions.com
- Instagram: instagram.com/motionlessvisions
- Facebook: facebook.com/motionlessvisions
- Other: turngram.com/p/mondaymoshmonsters
Image Credit:
Personal photo by Derek Sampson
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