Adam O’Day - Looking Outward & Looking Inward

Artist & Place

Episode 28 with Boston-based artist Adam O’Day. Adam paints across genres and scales up to building sized murals all across the region! He shows his work widely and in 2014 his painting was chosen for the “portrait of a city” competition in Boston! We recorded this episode from his studio in an old shoe factory in Abington, Massachusetts, and we cover its potential haunting, his move from naval engineer to full time artist, the role of collaboration, where his interest in shanty vernacular comes from as well as talk about the relationship between his painting and music. We talk about Metal Aesthetic, the weird and inclusive family of metal heads and his band MOLLUSK… a doom/sludge metal band. We reminisce about both spending our formative years growing up in Michigan and local midwestern nostalgia as well as the practice of what it takes to turn a representational view into a real place and a finished painting. Loved this conversation and can’t wait for you to hear! As always, please go give Adam O’Day a follow on Instagram, find out when his next concert will be and check out the show notes for a ton of links.
Adam O’Day Website & Instagram
MOLLUSK
Things discussed:
Jennifer Brilli
Jessica Hess
MERK
Felipe Ortiz
Brandalizm
Connie Snipes
FAYGO
Black Sabbath
Scott Low - Appalachian Blues
Saturday Night Dance Party
OM
Calvin and Hobbes
Hayao Miyazaki - Studio Ghibli
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