Welcome to Adele Delivers, where I deliver two of my favorite contemporary artists right to your inbox every Friday. Here’s to fostering a deeper connection with art, one artist at a time.

Ryo Laksamana aka RYOL

We interrupt this broadcast to bring you ART, art personified in the big staticky eyes of a child. The pop culture references in RYOL's work give a sense of place in time and space but they don't define the work. Instead, the work asks us to wake up, to connect, to join in on the fun! The other side of this life is emptiness after all, like the static of a TV with no signal. Learn more about RYOL here.

Jarek Puczel

Jarek’s paintings are about wanderlust, love, and loneliness. His work is like a double-exposure photograph, except he’s painting, and the second non-photograph is of a non-place (nature yes, but where?) and further, the non-place is in part represented by slick human gestures, surreal smears of paint in an otherwise quiet moment, a nod to the tension of an unseen emotional world we inhabit on the inside. Learn more about Jarek here.

Thank you for being here! Last but not least, I painted this little sketch about an interview I read with Sharon Stone. Enjoy this heartbreaking and inspiring story and learn why this little pot is turned upside down. Finding Her Heartbeat Sharon Stone walked through the valley of death and into an art supply store.

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