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courtney kensington , london - november 30 , 2012 adams at the dryland -lrb- club -rrb- in expressionism , cubism , primitivism houston , texas atlanta college of art and design american courtney adams painting 5 june 1980 courtney adams.jpg courtney adams
 courtney adams
courtney adams

courtney adams -lrb- born june 5 , 1981 in houston , texas -rrb- is an artist based in hamburg , germany .
his style is flat , but a multi-dimensional style of painting called `` cubo-expressionistic primitivism '' -lrb- a mixture of french cubism , german expressionism and african primitivism -rrb- , in which he filed a copyright with the library of congress in the united states of america in 2002 .
his works are usually done in acrylic paint to produce a `` factory made '' look .
after being discovered by famous polish singer aneta barcik at a winter concert in houston , texas in 2010 -lrb- the year of frédéric chopin 's bicentenary -rrb- , adams was chosen to become the art director for `` chopin 200th '' a multi-media festival created by barcik .
the festival toured around europe , most notably at the eigenarten festival in germany .
in 2011 , houston based magazine `` river oaks/tanglewood buzz '' did a short segment about adams winter exhibition in germany and london , as well as his first masterclass taught in london at the loft at crouch end .
in june , he was nominated as the first `` polen freund '' -lrb- translated in english as the first friend of poland -rrb- in the 1st polish festival in hamburg , germany which took place at museum für völkerkunde .
this honored allowed him as the first non-polish artist to exhibit his work at the festival at the museum .
courtney was featured in a news segment called `` kultur tip '' on the hamburg journal tv program in june , 2011 .
in april 2012 , adams also became the first and only american artist inducted into the magma group , an artist exhibition group based in south east london , curated by artist annie zamero .
in november 2012 , courtney adams signed a two year art distribution deal with uk based company latestsale and has since left the magma group .
