My work aims at the clearest way to communicate an understanding of life through storytelling using everyday symbols and complex emotional content.

The most sensitive painters to do this have found ways to coexist alongside ever changing trends in popular thinking about how art should look. Rembrandt, Bonnard, Manet, Cassatt, Gauguin, and Nerdrum are a few personal champions. This most universal means of compassionate human expression mustn't be left behind.

Adam Holzrichter is a narrative representational painter.

While he is a Chicago area native, he spent the bigger part of the last decade surveying American culture by traveling and living across both coasts. Largely this began as an effort to subvert a suburban-midwest-Jehovah's Witness upbringing's influence over his ideas of morality, love, and human behavior. Today he lives and works in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood.

Adam paints primarily from life to wind up somewhere between direct representation and fantasy. Often themes aim to elicit a sympathetic response, in order to encourage sincere private moments between the works and their viewers. Subjects commonly include scenes of enigmatic tension or discovery.