Conundrums
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art•Jun 05, 2026 — Oct 18, 2026
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Conundrums, artist Alicia Adamerovich’s debut museum exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that reveal a futuristic natural world. Growing up near the forests of Pennsylvania with a carpenter father and biologist mother, Adamerovich developed a deep curiosity about and relationship with nature. Her paintings play with space in strange and sincere ways: shadows carve out hills and valleys across surfaces; mysterious light sources emerge, and sculptural elements such as wax, pumice, and sand build paintings into three-dimensional spaces.
Adamerovich has described her practice as abstract rather than surrealist — she draws from everyday life more often than from dreams, which are a key feature of surrealism. Her sculptures blend traditional painting and natural elements, bringing together materials like maple wood, forged steel, copper, and resin in combinations that feel mid-transformation, as if they are in the process…
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Conundrums
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art•Jun 05, 2026 — Oct 18, 2026
Press Release
Conundrums, artist Alicia Adamerovich’s debut museum exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, brings together paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that reveal a futuristic natural world. Growing up near the forests of Pennsylvania with a carpenter father and biologist mother, Adamerovich developed a deep curiosity about and relationship with nature. Her paintings play with space in strange and sincere ways: shadows carve out hills and valleys across surfaces; mysterious light sources emerge, and sculptural elements such as wax, pumice, and sand build paintings into three-dimensional spaces.
Adamerovich has described her practice as abstract rather than surrealist — she draws from everyday life more often than from dreams, which are a key feature of surrealism. Her sculptures blend traditional painting and natural elements, bringing together materials like maple wood, forged steel, copper, and resin in combinations that feel mid-transformation, as if they are in the process…





























