The Washington, D.C.–based painter and sculptor BK Adams recently brought The Messenger: Time, a three story-tall sculpture, to Louisville’s Outsider Art Museum. The work is permanently on view in the home city of his mentor and friend, the late artist Sam Gilliam. In lieu of a saddle, the artwork sports 130 clocks and is executed in a poignant shade of blue that appears throughout his body of work. Taken all together, the sculpture is a monumental reference to the legacy of manufacturing, the Kentucky Derby, and in Adams’ words, “our relationship with the constant passage of time.” —J.A.D.
October 18, 2024
