Adam Frelin: A Stone Alone:

A new site-specific artwork, 2023

Perhaps unearthed during The Mill’s site excavation, a massive circular object reminiscent of a weathered millstone slowly rotates overhead. While its scale and implied weight connect us to the experience of Natural Spectacles, the object’s careful and precise movement evoke its former utilitarian purpose: to grind grain. A Stone Alone embodies a primordial presence that enacts the passing of time as both cyclical and never ending.

Adam Frelin (b.1973, Grove City, PA) has shown widely at venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and College Art Association. Frelin has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo, among others. He has published two books of photography and has had several public artworks commissioned throughout the world. Most notably, he and his team were awarded a $1 million Public Art Challenge grant through Bloomberg Philanthropies to be lead artists on Breathing Lights, a multi-city temporary art installation that involves illuminating abandoned buildings with a breathing effect created with light.

Frelin received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. Currently he is an Associate Professor of art at the SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY