Adam Hunter Caldwell - Coverage

NOVEMBER 15–December 20, 2025

San Francisco artist Adam Hunter Caldwell constructs images through collage, drawing, and painting, assembling them from the scattered fragments of personal experience. With a background in illustration, Caldwell’s practice treats each work as a form of visual language: part image, part text, inviting close reading as in addition to viewing. Presented as an imperfect yet urgent response, this body of work arises from an acute concern about the cultural and political trajectory of the United States. Each piece begins with a single word that has been removed from U.S. federal websites, using that erasure as a conceptual seed. Through layered mark-making and visual reconstruction, the work gives form to what is being suppressed, offering a deeply personal yet politically attuned meditation on resistance.

Join us for an opening reception with the artist on November 15 from 5 to 9 PM. In conjunction with this exhibition, we are exciting to be releasing a unique graphic novel interpretation of the show

Soey Milk has established herself as an impressive and compelling figure in contemporary figurative painting. Born in 1989 in Seoul, Korea, Milk moved to Los Angeles at age 11. She earned her BFA from The Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
Her sensitive, sensual and delicate hand, and with a keen eye for the emotive use of form, has gained her a notable number of fans and followers of her work in just a short handful of years.
Soey Milk's oeuvre is characterized by a robust amalgamation of traditional oil painting techniques, with a pronounced predilection towards representational and abstract forms of art, deeply ingrained in the tenets of academic painting. Her works predominantly showcase the female form in semi-clothed, serene, and intimate settings, imbued with a profound sense of vulnerability while simultaneously celebrating the innate beauty and fortitude of the female physique. 
Milk has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and is currently represented by EVOKE Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM and Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. She also teaches as part of the Mentor/MFA Program at The Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA. This is Milk’s first solo with Ryan Graff Contemporary.