Adam Siegel Spotlight
1. How long have you been in business?
I've been in the business of making art for about 40 years now although recently since I moved to ICNC, my business model has changed significantly. I chose to be in a community where professionals were developing their business model and trying to reach a larger audience. Now I'm undergoing a dramatic change in terms of my social media and trying to install a much larger platform to get my work to a larger audience.
2. How did you get started?
Early on during High School I developed a serious interest in photography. After graduating college. I applied for two different grants and got both of them from the state of Illinois launching my career in a dramatic fashion. I had a one-man show on the top Gallery Michigan Avenue and from there I took those successes and keep reinvesting in work in my process. I've always chosen to put the money back into what I do well in order to fortify my knowledge and my experience to try and bump up constantly.
3. What’s unique about your story or business?
I have survived as an artist because my work is unique among all the other artists in the city, in the state, and the country. I do work that is both beautiful and abstract but has a very particular Vision. It's my vision and I'm constantly developing it and never stay in the same place. People will look to me because I'm an artist keeps going forward and not repeating the same thing over and over again.
4. What is the biggest challenge you have faced in business and how did you overcome it?
The biggest challenge has been a constant dialogue between pushing forward vs. staying where I am. I am constantly every day exposing myself to challenges in the studio. How do I deal with it? I deal with it by putting my head to the canvas, taking risks knowing that I don't know the answer until after I figure it out. It's only than that I can celebrate and then it's on to the next problem to solve.
5. Please list a few of your most recent accomplishments.
I recently completed two big projects with the Alinea Restaurant Group. A very large painting of mine called "Boars Head", is in their new restaurant called Roister. It's certainly the most active and well-received restaurant in the city right now and it's an honor to be associated with such a highly esteemed and creative business. Another project was also with the Alinea group, it was called The Progression. It was an experimental restaurant, and was open for 3 weeks. I was collaborating with Chef Grant Achatz, he gave me complete creative freedom to develop art works for this installation project.
I've been in the business of making art for about 40 years now although recently since I moved to ICNC, my business model has changed significantly. I chose to be in a community where professionals were developing their business model and trying to reach a larger audience. Now I'm undergoing a dramatic change in terms of my social media and trying to install a much larger platform to get my work to a larger audience.
2. How did you get started?
Early on during High School I developed a serious interest in photography. After graduating college. I applied for two different grants and got both of them from the state of Illinois launching my career in a dramatic fashion. I had a one-man show on the top Gallery Michigan Avenue and from there I took those successes and keep reinvesting in work in my process. I've always chosen to put the money back into what I do well in order to fortify my knowledge and my experience to try and bump up constantly.
3. What’s unique about your story or business?
I have survived as an artist because my work is unique among all the other artists in the city, in the state, and the country. I do work that is both beautiful and abstract but has a very particular Vision. It's my vision and I'm constantly developing it and never stay in the same place. People will look to me because I'm an artist keeps going forward and not repeating the same thing over and over again.
4. What is the biggest challenge you have faced in business and how did you overcome it?
The biggest challenge has been a constant dialogue between pushing forward vs. staying where I am. I am constantly every day exposing myself to challenges in the studio. How do I deal with it? I deal with it by putting my head to the canvas, taking risks knowing that I don't know the answer until after I figure it out. It's only than that I can celebrate and then it's on to the next problem to solve.
5. Please list a few of your most recent accomplishments.
I recently completed two big projects with the Alinea Restaurant Group. A very large painting of mine called "Boars Head", is in their new restaurant called Roister. It's certainly the most active and well-received restaurant in the city right now and it's an honor to be associated with such a highly esteemed and creative business. Another project was also with the Alinea group, it was called The Progression. It was an experimental restaurant, and was open for 3 weeks. I was collaborating with Chef Grant Achatz, he gave me complete creative freedom to develop art works for this installation project.