The Art of Burning Man Comes to Gloucester with Globally Renowned Sculptor Adrian Landon
We are pleased to announce the 2022 Gloucester Arts Festival Sculpture Installation Artist is Adrian Landon. We are honored to have his work installed here – particularly as our exhibit is running concurrently with the Radical Horizons exhibit at Chatsworth House in England. Each year, the Gloucester Arts Festival brings exceptionally gifted artists across many disciplines to our historic village. This year, we are kicking off the festival bigger than ever. Art transforms and transports us. Art informs and inspires communal experiences. And this summer, Adrian Landon – the renowned sculptor whose majestic works will be installed on our Historic Main Street – certainly inspires. Visionary artists ignite new generations of artists, engineers, thinkers, and community leaders.
For 23 years, The Cook Foundation has worked tirelessly to expand access to the arts in Gloucester. Through partnerships with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Plein Air Artists, Muralists, and Sculptors like Seward Johnson, and now Adrian Landon, we are grateful to give back to this historic community and create opportunities to enjoy and benefit from all the arts.
Adrian Landon
Born and raised in New York City, Adrian Landon scribbled with crayons and ate Play-Doh as a toddler. But his journey as a sculptor truly began with instructor Cliff Dufton at the Art Students League of NY in 2009. Like many great geniuses, Adrian is a proud college dropout, having only completed one year of Industrial Design at the Academy of Art in San Francisco in 2008. He developed his initial body of work in the New York area, including 4 years as a hipster in Brooklyn. It was there that he developed his first Mechanical Horse in 2014, and began to show his work nationally and internationally.
In 2019 he received the Honorarium Grant from Burning Man to make Wings of Glory, a giant mechanical Pegasus, his largest and greatest sculpture yet. After traveling to India, and Nepal, skiing in Wyoming, and WOOFing in Hawaii in just 3 months, he left the East Coast for good and went to the Buffalo Creek Art Center in Gardnerville, NV to build the impossible. It was an incredible success. He currently lives in Reno NV, with his Queen Rebekah, and makes art at the Generator, a communal maker space.
