The Delphic: Artist Insights 

Adam Lovitz (b. 1985, Philadelphia, PA) is inspired by the accumulations that build up on surfaces over the course of everyday life. He layers paint with the addition of various materials to create his dimensional compositions which hover in between abstraction and figuration. Combinations of colors, re-imagined shapes, and cosmic textures strikes a balance between our natural world and universe, childhood curiosity and play, and that protean threshold when the familiar slips away into something new. Lovitz is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and his work has recently been exhibited at Commonweal Gallery, the Woodmere Art Museum, Fjord Gallery, AUTOMAT Gallery, and Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, all in Philadelphia; as well as regionally at VCUArts, Richmond, VA; The Painting Center, NYC; the MANA Contemporary, Chicago; Helen J Gallery, L.A.; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC; and Trestle Gallery, NYC. His work is in numerous private collections across the country.

Stuart Shils (b. 1954, Philadelphia, PA) has painted from direct observation for 30 years, either outside or through windows, and is still engaged with the idea of or feeling of landscape and experience in landscape as memory. Shils studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Philadelphia College of Art (UARTS), Drew University, and Temple University. He has had solo shows in New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Boston, Scottsdale, Richmond, L.A., San Francisco, Stuttgart, and Cork (Ireland). Shils is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship for Residency in Ballycastle, Ireland; and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Misha Wyllie (b. 1988, Fort Lauderdale, FL) is an artist and a house painter living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Her work critiques capitalist value systems through absurd and perceptual transformations of everyday objects. She is a graduate of Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and has exhibited locally and nationally at venues including the New School for Social Research, Woodmere Art Museum, Marginal Utility, Moore College of Art, and New College of Florida.