Adam Turl
@bornagainlabor.bsky.social
Artist and writer in southern Illinois. Editor at Locust Review. https://www.turlstudio.art/
The Locust 12 editorial, “Fascist Pizza,” is live (link in comments):
February 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The Locust 12 editorial, “Fascist Pizza,” is live (link in comments):
Battle at the Pomona Natural Bridge - Born Again Labor Tract 25. Mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, acrylic, ink, graphite, wig hair, stickers, glitter, coffee, post it notes, cotton and ash on canvas (2025)
February 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Battle at the Pomona Natural Bridge - Born Again Labor Tract 25. Mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, acrylic, ink, graphite, wig hair, stickers, glitter, coffee, post it notes, cotton and ash on canvas (2025)
Immortality Beaver (after a story by Tish Turl), Katrina. Mixed media collage, photographs and paintings, digital prints, acrylic, coffee, stickers, glitter, wig hair, graphite, ink, cotton and ash on canvas and found “thrift store paintings.”
January 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Immortality Beaver (after a story by Tish Turl), Katrina. Mixed media collage, photographs and paintings, digital prints, acrylic, coffee, stickers, glitter, wig hair, graphite, ink, cotton and ash on canvas and found “thrift store paintings.”
Chiapas 1999. Mixed media collage, photographs and paintings, digital prints, acrylic, coffee, stickers, glitter, wig hair, graphite, ink, cotton and ash on canvas and found “thrift store paintings.”
January 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Chiapas 1999. Mixed media collage, photographs and paintings, digital prints, acrylic, coffee, stickers, glitter, wig hair, graphite, ink, cotton and ash on canvas and found “thrift store paintings.”
Katrina - Mixed media collage, photographs and paintings, digital prints, acrylic, coffee, stickers, glitter, wig hair, graphite, ink, cotton and ash on canvas and found “thrift store paintings.”
January 27, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Katrina - Mixed media collage, photographs and paintings, digital prints, acrylic, coffee, stickers, glitter, wig hair, graphite, ink, cotton and ash on canvas and found “thrift store paintings.”
Born Again Labor Tract 24: Biologie Wayne’s HRT Bootleggers - with quotes by Emory Douglas - mixed media collage and painting on thrift store “painting,” prints, acrylic, marker, graphite, wig hair, coffee, glitter, ink, cotton and ash (2025)
January 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Born Again Labor Tract 24: Biologie Wayne’s HRT Bootleggers - with quotes by Emory Douglas - mixed media collage and painting on thrift store “painting,” prints, acrylic, marker, graphite, wig hair, coffee, glitter, ink, cotton and ash (2025)
New Years Day at BALM
January 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
New Years Day at BALM
Tish and I are getting a few thousand stickers ready to give away at the SIDSA New Years Day party on Wednesday… so come on by if you can… should be chill and we’ve got some wine, generic soda, juice, beer, and food and stuff… (517 N. Springer from 12pm to 9pm)… it’s a stop by whenever type thing
December 31, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Tish and I are getting a few thousand stickers ready to give away at the SIDSA New Years Day party on Wednesday… so come on by if you can… should be chill and we’ve got some wine, generic soda, juice, beer, and food and stuff… (517 N. Springer from 12pm to 9pm)… it’s a stop by whenever type thing
Born Again Labor Tract 23: In The Year 2025 - mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, acrylic, stickers, found materials, wig hair, coffee, glitter, ink, marker, cotton and ash on stretched canvas…
December 19, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Born Again Labor Tract 23: In The Year 2025 - mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, acrylic, stickers, found materials, wig hair, coffee, glitter, ink, marker, cotton and ash on stretched canvas…
KFC Parking Lot's Wife; working on Born Again Labor Tract #23; KFC Parking Lot's Wife joining the other assemblages and artwork in the Slow Apocalypse Room...
December 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
KFC Parking Lot's Wife; working on Born Again Labor Tract #23; KFC Parking Lot's Wife joining the other assemblages and artwork in the Slow Apocalypse Room...
Working in the studio…
November 27, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Working in the studio…
Tish Turl and I were interviewed a week or so ago by Wayne Heimbach for his Facing Reality podcast, about BALM, Locust Review, and the City of Carbondale 618… link in comments
November 22, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Tish Turl and I were interviewed a week or so ago by Wayne Heimbach for his Facing Reality podcast, about BALM, Locust Review, and the City of Carbondale 618… link in comments
In the BALM studio - working on Elegy for the St. Louis Commune (in progress, acrylic so far); Born Again Labor Tract 21: Legalize Time Travel; Truck Nuts Castrati; new "Wounded Crutches" and "Fast Food Parking Lot's Wives"
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 PM
In the BALM studio - working on Elegy for the St. Louis Commune (in progress, acrylic so far); Born Again Labor Tract 21: Legalize Time Travel; Truck Nuts Castrati; new "Wounded Crutches" and "Fast Food Parking Lot's Wives"
Photo by Mikayla Holder, Southern Illinoisan (2022)
November 16, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Photo by Mikayla Holder, Southern Illinoisan (2022)
Born Again Labor Tract 20: They Moved Hotel California to Nevada but Now You Have to Clean the Rooms (30 x 40 inches) - mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, post-it notes, marker, acrylic, ink, stickers, glitter, wig hair, coffee, ash and cotton on stretched canvas (2024).
November 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Born Again Labor Tract 20: They Moved Hotel California to Nevada but Now You Have to Clean the Rooms (30 x 40 inches) - mixed-media collage and painting, digital prints, post-it notes, marker, acrylic, ink, stickers, glitter, wig hair, coffee, ash and cotton on stretched canvas (2024).
A little change in the title and cover of my forthcoming book, now a bit more like its original title… coming out in the spring from Revol Press.
Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth' - will be out in 2025 from Revol Press.
Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth' - will be out in 2025 from Revol Press.
November 11, 2024 at 3:17 PM
A little change in the title and cover of my forthcoming book, now a bit more like its original title… coming out in the spring from Revol Press.
Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth' - will be out in 2025 from Revol Press.
Adam Turl's 'Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth' - will be out in 2025 from Revol Press.
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project - Irrealist historical markers.
November 11, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project - Irrealist historical markers.
November 11, 2024 at 2:31 AM
November 11, 2024 at 12:27 AM