Adam Caldwell: Coverage

NOVEMBER 15–December 20, 2025

Presented as an imperfect yet urgent response, Coverage arises from San Francisco artist Adam Caldwell’s acute concern about the cultural and political trajectory of the United States. Each picture in the exhibition begins with a single word that has been removed from U.S. federal websites: Belong. Disabilities. Ethnicity. Hate Speech. Minority. Refugee. From these disappearances, Caldwell builds a vivid, critical language of images.

Working across collage, drawing, and painting, Caldwell assembles his compositions from scattered fragments of personal experience and public omission. Treating each work as a mode of visual text, the artist invites viewers not only to look, but to read, parsing layers of mark-making, redaction, and reconstruction. The resulting canvases give form to what is being suppressed, transforming political erasures into a deeply personal yet politically attuned meditation on visibility, vulnerability, and resistance.

Each erased word is a pressure point, and Caldwell presses on that bruise, layering paper, pigment, and experience, until meaning surfaces again. The works’ hybrid grammar, part image, part text, mirrors the fractured way information is now encountered. In Caldwell’s hands, those fractures become structure.

In conjunction with the exhibition, we’ll be releasing a unique graphic novel interpretation of the show, presenting Caldwell’s imagery in a sequential format extending project’s narrative dimensions.