Adam Alessi: fullmoon

Hoffman Donahue Los Angeles · Mid-City

Exhibition on view: Sep 30, 2025 - Nov 8, 2025

Hoffman Donahue presents Adam Alessi: fullmoon, a body of work born from the artist’s near-death experience. The paintings meditate on the fragility of consciousness, mortality, and time’s passage, moving from serenity to unease while reflecting existential awareness. Personal yet universal, they evoke nostalgia, ritual, and the persistence of memory. Created after relocating to New York, the works remain intimate, made without a studio to stay close to daily life.

Artist

Adam Alessi

Adam Alessi (b. 1994, Camarillo, California) is a Los Angeles–based painter whose self‑taught practice channels a surreal, unsettling vision of the human figure. Working in oil on linen, he stages characters that hover between folk‑tale masks, horror film stills and the uncanny corridors of childhood memory. His early works were executed rapidly—“I was making a painting in a day,” he has said—while recent canvases take weeks, even months, exploring a “stream of consciousness” aesthetic.

Works

Artworks in this exhibition