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Pietro Adamo was born in Toronto, Canada in 1955 and currently lives in Woodbridge, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto and Sheridan College in Toronto and is now an art professor at Chaminade College School. Working from his home studio, Adamo began his career two decades ago as a realist landscape painter and was commissioned to do portraits of prominent political figures of members of parliament. Adamo, though, could never escape his profound interest in the abstract. In 1990, he was the subject of a television series devoted to important Italo-Canadian artists.
Adamo’s abstract paintings are visual celebrations of both the artist’s admiration for the “unpredictable and inexhaustible record of life” and the very freedom with which it is all expressed. In his passion to convey an emotion, a place or any image that may have stirred his memory, Adamo abandons the monotony of conventional subject matter in favour of vibrancy, spontaneity and organic brushwork. His uncanny ability to marry sophisticated geometric spatial relationships to raw and emotional use of colour, texture and form lends his pieces optimism and strength. What is clearly in evidence is the artist’s delight in the intuition, not rational forethought.: “I have to paint to speak without words, to express myself without restrictions…never relating.”
Adamo has participated in one man shows and group shows in North America and Europe. He was co-owner of a gallery in Toronto where his work was predominant and sold regularly. Private owners and collectors of his work can be found throughout North America and Europe.
Selected Exhibitions:
1997 Magnotta Winery, Woodbridge, Ont.
1996 Magnotta Winery, Beamsville, Ont.
1995 Rocfern International Galleries, Woodbridge, Ont.
1994 Lerner Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Rocfern International Galleries, Woodbridge, Ont.
Fonseca Gallery, Toronto, Ont.
1993 Frankfurt International Art Show, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 Free & Free Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Arte New York, New York
Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto, Ont.
1991 La Parc, Richmond Hill, Ont.
McClaren Barnes Gallery, Oakville, Ont.
1989 Toscana Interiors, Toronto, Ont.
1988 Lifestyles ’88, Novotel, Toronto, Ont.
1986 Art Modes Gallery, Thornhill, Ont.
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