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METRO ART LOS ANGELES | The American Oil Industry Photographed on Discarded Oil Drum Lids

This Earth Day — which is Saturday — Metro Art reflects on the photographs of artist David Emitt Adams that is part of the Metro Art Photo Lightbox Series, a temporary exhibition program.

A series of large-scale photographs printed on discarded 55- gallon oil drum lids contemplates the social, political and environmental landscape of the American oil industry.

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | Daily Art Moment: David Emitt Adams

“As long as people have been in the American West, they have found its barren desert landscapes to be ideal for dumping detritus. Today, the notion of land untouched by humans is so foreign it might as well be make-believe.” — David Emitt Adams

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CATALYST INTERVIEWS | David Emitt Adams

As an educator, [Adams] is spending time teaching the wet plate collodion process to young minds, among other things. It’s his forte, and the process used to create the aforementioned bodies of work that first got my attention.

JAVA MAGAZINE | PHOTO DUO: DAVID EMITT ADAMS AND CLAIRE A. WARDEN

The door opens and David Emitt Adams leads me into a room full of equipment and tools stacked from floor to ceiling. The scene is frenetic with repairmen all around. We make it out of the space and I’m eventually led into a living room. There we encounter Claire A. Warden, Adams’ wife of three and a half years. She graciously offers me tea, and we chat about their lives as thriving creatives in Phoenix.