Adam Beris

An'ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will, 2024

Adam Beris’ painting An'ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will (2024) offers a grid of dimensional oranges sculpted from paint so thick its skin has begun to shrivel, beneath a logo for an orange-flavored soft drink. As references to magic began to appear, Beris asked himself, “how does a painting come together?” answering himself later, “I just don’t know, its magic…” In conceptualizing Fantastic Best Wishes, Beris returned to the metaphorical drawing board as he discarded formulas and habits and doubled down on intuition to make new paintings. At times on this journey, painting began to feel alchemical again and Beris leaned in by painting a witch flying on a broom stick, a Halloween mask, a lucky rabbit, and the oranges, which references a common good luck spell. The painting’s title is excerpted from the Wiccan Rede, an ethical code of the neopagan religion which translates to: “as long as you aren't harming anyone, do as you wish.”