'ADAM GUZZO' Micron 08 Pen on Bristol Paper 19x24in 2021 NFS Adam Guzzo 1971-2015 Adam is one of the artists still prominently featured at Look Gallery (720 Geary st.). It's been six years since his passing, but I still see his work displayed neary everyday. He was the first one to turn me onto Look years ago when he was using it as his night time oil painting studio. I first met him at Angel Cafe during a time in which I was consistently doing illegal street art throughout the city. He casualally approached me asking "Are you a part of the San Francisco Art scene". His specific demeanor made me think he was an undercover cop. I soon learned that was not the case, and many drunken art filled nights throughout the city followed. Stylistically we were near opposites in our approach to art, but we could talk shop for hpurs; often until the sun came up over countless bottles of wine soon followed by coffee. I do miss you Adam, but in many ways it really seems like you never left. Maybe it's still seeing you art all the time, frequenting the same places we did back in those days combined with the familiar scenery and mutual friends of the the TL; I'm not really sure what it is. Time just sorta stopped in those days and even though years have passed, somethings just never really changed. "Born on August 27, 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, Adam attended The Art Institute of Chicago before moving to The City in 1999, enrolling at the Academy of Art to study computer animation through 2005. Switching to oils as his primary focus, he began showing his work in 2011, finding favor with numerous local and national collectors. Ranging in style from photo realism to German Expressionism, he created a distinctive body of work creating over one hundred works and innumerable sketches." - LOOK Gallery You can read more on Adam at: https://www.lookgallerysf.com #adamguzzo #lookgallery #tenderloinnights (at LOOK Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVeCNUVvZh2/?utm_medium=tumblr
