Biographies + Photographs
Adam Turl is an artist and writer from southern Illinois — by way of Wisconsin, Chicago, upstate New York and Las Vegas. They are an artist and editor at Locust Review, a quarterly irrealist journal of art and literature, and a member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective (LALC). They have had solo exhibitions at the Brett Wesley Gallery (Las Vegas), the Cube (Las Vegas), Project 1612 (Peoria, Illinois), and Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois); and group exhibitions at Core Contemporary (Las Vegas) and Gallery 210 (St. Louis). In 2016 Turl was awarded a fellowship and residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France. They have regularly presented at the Historical Materialism conferences in Montreal (L'Université du Québec), Toronto (York University), and London (SOAS University of London). Turl is currently a doctoral student in media studies at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIUC). They received their MFA from Washington University in St. Louis at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, and a BFA from SIUC. Turl is working on an evolving conceptual and visual art project, Born Again Labor Museum, with their partner Tish Turl, a writer and fellow LALC member. They host the monthly podcast Locust Radio along with Tish and LALC member Laura Fair-Schulz.
Tish Turl is a writer and poet from Central Illinois living in southern Illinois by way of Las Vegas, Nevada. Growing up they had a pet cow named Bob – named after an auctioneer at the sale barn. Tish beat up homophobes in high school. They literally once owned a pair of rose-colored glasses but lost them. Turl is a former editor at Red Wedge Magazine. They are a writer and editor at Locust Review, a quarterly irrealist journal of art and literature, and a member of the Locust Arts and Letters Collective (LALC). Their published work includes the serialized novella Sound, the short stories, “Space Goths,” “Memez,” and “Sewerbot,” the serialized poems of the “Toilet Key Anthology” and, with Adam Turl, the “Stink Ape Resurrection Primer.” They are currently working on the evolving Born Again Labor Museum project with their partner, and fellow LALC member, Adam Turl.
For Tonight Only performing at a benefit for the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement at BALM (2022, photo by Children of the Rat Temple).
BALM “grand opening” (2022).
BALM storefront (2022).
DSA and YDSA Labor Day picnic with Starbucks workers in Carbondale Town Square (2022).
Southern Illinois Reproductive Justice Network open mic meeting at the Carbondale Town Square (2022).
YDSA movie night at BALM (2022).
Nick Shillingford and Laura Ashley Lomax visiting BALM (2022).
YDSA comrades making reproductive rights materials at BALM (2022).
Breakfast at BALM (2021).
“Socialism Night” presentation on “Art and Socialism” for Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) (October 2019)
Tish Markley working on the Anachs project in Gateway District Las Vegas studio (October 2018)
Red Wedge panel at Historical Materialism Montreal (2018)
Red Wedge art display at Historical Materialism Montreal (2018)
Working on The Last Barista (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs) in Las Vegas studio (January 2018).
"Central Committee, November 2071 (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs)" in progress by Adam Turl (with details). Acrylic, Sharpie, ink, stickers, post-it notes, staples, coffee and mixed-media on canvas tarp.(Las Vegas studio, 2017)
Source image photo shoot (Dollar Art House, January 2017)
Banner making at the Dollar Art House (2016).
Soma Navidson (Chicago 2016)
Bob Quéllos and Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez (Chicago 2016)
Historical Materialism Toronto (2016)
Omnia Sol (2015)
Working on "A Painter of Our Time" series/project in the Sam Fox (October 2014)
Carbondale (2010)
Crystal Stella Becerril @ Historical Materialism Toronto (2016)
November Art Show (St. Louis, 2015)
Dickson Beall (St. Louis 2016)
Installing "Red Mars" at the Kemper Museum (Spring 2016)
Kyle Preckwinkle (Chicago 2014)
Starbucks union workers organizing at BALM (2022).
YDSA comrades making BLM and anti-debt protest materials at BALM (2022).
Tish Turl and Adam Turl at BALM (2022). photo by Mikayla Holder (Southern Illinoisan)
Frances Madeson, Tish Turl, + Adam Turl at BALM (2022).
BALM storefront (2022).
Niles Jacobson and James Barrett at BALM (2022).
A BALM patron picking up a painting/collage, Born Again Labor Tract #2 (2022).
Tish Turl in Carbondale (2021).
Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) “open studio” (October 2019)
Working on The Beggar Queen (Revolt of the Swivel Chairs) in Las Vegas studio (Fall 2017).
Artist talk at the opening of The Barista Who Disappeared at Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois) (Summer 2018).
Chiapas (1999)
Paris studio (December 2016)
Alexander Billet, Jason Netek, Magally Miranda-Alcazar and Adam Turl at the Red Wedge panel on “Gentrification, Art and the Right to the City” at the Los Angeles Left Coast Forum (2018)
Red Wedge art display at Historical Materialism Montreal (2018)
"Preview Thursday" for Revolt of the Swivel Chairs at the Las Vegas Cube Gallery (2018).
"Lengend/Key (The Barista Who Could See the Future)" in progress (Dollar Art House, January 2017)
Dollar Art House (2017).
Mass "resistance" meeting organized by Socialist Alternative St. Louis. Sunni Hutton, Adam Turl, Ashton Rome, Sarah de Lacie. Photograph by Richard Reilly (2017)
Open Studio, Cité Residency (Paris, Fall 2016)
Open Studio, Cité Residency (Paris, Fall 2016)
Dollar Art House (2016).
Hard Times Art Show II with Richard Reilly, Sarah Hermes Griesbach, Buzz Spector, at the Dollar Art House (2016).
Omnia Sol and Alexander Billet (Chicago 2016)
Socialist Alternative St. Louis during the 2016 presidential campaign
Craig E. Ross at the "Art and Revolution" discussion during the Didactic Art Show (Surplus Gallery, Carbondale, 2014)
Najjar Abdul-Musawwir (Sam Fox Studio 2014)
Cité Residency (Paris, Fall 2016)
Cité Residency (Paris, Fall 2016)
Chicago (Fall 2016)
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Najjar Abdul-Musawwir at the BALM grand opening (2022).
Omnia Sol visiting BALM (2022).
BALM door with “Carbondale Tool Library” sign (2022).
YDSA comrades making abortion rights protest signs (2022).
BALM “grand opening” (2022).
Bug Davidson and Holly Lewis visiting BALM (2022).
Adam Turl making blood prints on books (2020).
Local coverage of BALM’s Communist Manifesto Distribution Project in the Southern Illinoisan (2022).
Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) “open studio” (October 2019)
Adam Turl, Alexander Billet and Crystal Stella Becerril at Historical Materialism London (2016).
St. Louis studio on Cherokee Street (Luminary 2016)
Hard Times Art Show II with Jesa Dior Brooks at the Dollar Art House. Artwork in background by Jon Cornell. (2016)
The fictional artist Immaculata Rudolofo (with Alejandro Puga, 1997-1998)
Carbondale (2014)
Sam Fox Open Studios (St. Louis 2016)
Sam Fox studio (2016)
Dollar Art House (2017)
Jordy Cummings speaking at Historical Materialism Montreal (2018)
Chicago (December 2016)
"First Friday" for The Barista Who Disappeared at Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois) (Summer 2018).
Las Vegas studio (February 2019)
"First Friday" for The Barista Who Disappeared at Artspace 304 (Carbondale, Illinois) (Summer 2018).
Adam Turl speaking at Historical Materialism Montreal (2018)
"First Friday" for Revolt of the Swivel Chairs at the Las Vegas Cube Gallery (2018).
Mass "resistance" meeting organized by Socialist Alternative St. Louis. Sunni Hutton, Adam Turl, Ashton Rome, Sarah de Lacie. Photograph by Richard Reilly (2017)
Cité Residency (Paris, Fall 2016)
Cité Residency (Paris, Fall 2016)
Sam Fox Open Studios (St. Louis 2016)
Husni Ashiku, Najjar Najjar Abdul-Musawwir, Adam Turl and Anna Maria Tucker at the Evicted from Heaven and Earth show (Surplus Gallery, Carbondale, 2013)