Adam Beris paints amalgamations of decontextualized signs and symbols rooted in American consumerist culture from the late 90s and early aughts. Celebrating and disrupting traditional relationships between object, subject, foreground, and background, Beris perforates these recognizable graphics with unexpected (and abstract) paint applications—squeezing paint directly from tube to canvas, palette knifing shapes of paint, or adhering salvaged bits of failed paintings onto surfaces. Floating in the ether or grounded by a painting’s edge are Beris’ ever- expanding lexicon of extruded glyphs, each informed by language, infographics, slot machines, and social media. Aligned in grids, these symbols function like desktop icons each accessing its own deep well of information, but Beris also paints them discarded and tangled amongst puffy blades of grass. With self-deprecating humor, cultural criticism, and snappy witticism, Beris’ paintings reflect desire and encapsulate the hunt for meaning within a fragmented landscape.