Adam Bartos

Bartos, whose past subjects include yard sales and darkrooms, travelled to rural stock-car speedways for these moody still-lifes of dented, scraped, and rusted cars and their engines. He shot at night on the sidelines, in disorienting closeup, forgoing the glamour of speed in favor of a more realistic bruised beauty. 
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As abstract as these compositions can be, this is the antithesis of car advertising. Instead of gleaming metal, Bartos shows us grime and dust; instead of sleek shapes, clunky engine blocks; instead of exotic alloys or carbon fiber, we are back in the iron age.
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For this body of work, Adam Bartos went to local speedways in upstate New York, in Florida and New Mexico, where stock cars are raced by their owners on quarter-mile dirt tracks for the thrill and glory, and very little money.
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