ABOUT
 

Meghan Adkins is an Oakland-based painter whose work focuses on the collapse of modern industrial societies by revisiting abandoned colonial settings as they fade into history.  Much of her work features a black dog called Patterson who represents the human desire for connection and home. Through Patterson's eyes we journey the world over, experiencing the loss and emptiness of failed human ambitions left to decay and the effect ​of ​capitalism on our communities and our environment. ​ We observe the beauty of nature as it reclaims the earth, and simultaneously as something to possess once again.

Initially, Patterson allows the viewer to experience the grief of these losses as nostalgia but as we continue to engage ​more deeply with the images, we begin to ​sense our culpability in capitalism's constant drive to consume and expand, never feeling that what we have is enough.  These images are lonely, isolated and often, violated by the viewer's projection of nostalgia.​

Adkins works in a neo-folk art style that incorporates visually simple imagery and complex narratives, asking the viewer to ponder, "What happened here?"