NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Adam Helms. This is the artist’s second New York solo show at the gallery. In this exhibition, Helms continues his exploration of masking and identity, an idea he uses as a framework in his portraits of militia, subversive political groups and irregular combatants. This body of work deals with representations of archetypical figures and symbols that are in some sense recognizable, yet undefined by a unified viewpoint or definitive individuality. Helms’ new work presents the viewer with images, through both drawing and photographic material, that function as signifiers pointing to issues of representation, psychology, politics, and militarism, but which manage to evade a specific identification or singular definition and are ultimately, without name. In the main gallery, Helms presents a series of forty eight charcoal portraits