User:Ttupper/Mark B. Adams

Mark B. Adams was born in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1953. He earned a Master of Science degree in landscape architecture and during his undergraduate tenure was a national-level competitive gymnast. He currently resides in Truro, Massachusetts where he works as a Geographic Information Systems specialist for the National Park Service at Cape Cod National Seashore. Adams, who is associated with the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, is a local and well-respected artist that often shows his stylistic paintings at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts and at various venues in the New York metropolitan area. Adams’ work is centered on the natural world; his work often attempts to capture the organized chaos of nature by layering painted images of dynamic predator-prey interactions and various other unique and charismatic animal behaviors atop of backgrounds of hand-replicated topographic images that sometimes contain powerful elements of geological change. Mark Adams is an active conservation biologist and supports various conservation-oriented research projects ranging from salt marsh restoration to amphibian and reptile protection. It’s rumored that he is currently producing a semi-scripted, documentary-style, short film about the unique elements of cultural and natural resource protection on lower Cape Cod.