About the Artist - Adam Pacio
I spent thirty-five years in advertising. Not painting — managing. Directing. Running the machine for Madison Avenue agencies while the machine decided what my time was worth and how much of it they were entitled to.
Then the machine broke me. Not metaphorically. A stroke. The kind that happens when you are putting in sixteen-hour days for an understaffed employer who has decided that is acceptable, and that the acceptable thing for you to do is keep showing up anyway. I survived it. I stopped working for them.
That was the reset.
I came back to mandalas — work I had started during Covid, geometric patterns that required the kind of slow deliberate attention that corporate life systematically removes from you over the years, one emergency and one deadline at a time. The process was not spiritual revelation. It was closer to physical therapy, something that needed doing with both hands and a quiet room, and it turned out I was very good at it.
The work became serious. The work became a business.
Today I produce original Mandala paintings at my studio in Inwood, Manhattan. Open Edition Giclée prints are available through this site on archival Hahnemühle stock, and Limited Editions are released in runs of 50 — signed and numbered, with holographic certificates of authenticity. The Monarch Butterfly Mandala was the first. More are in progress.
I also study art history the way I ran projects — methodically, with documentation. Every Masterpiece in the collection is tracked by movement, period, and influence lineage, the specific painters who were watching each other across decades and cities and occasionally borrowing ideas without admitting it. The research informs the work. The work informs the research. It is a good system.
If you are here for the prints, the shop is straightforward, and the Limited Edition page has full specs and purchase options. Trade inquiries — designers, consultants, hospitality buyers — go through email. I have managed large-scale procurement relationships from the agency side for seventeen years, and I know what the documentation needs to look like. The paperwork is not a problem.
The work is what it is. Decide for yourself whether it belongs in your space.