Adam Brierley (b. 1990) is a mixed-media artist based in Long Beach, California, whose work is constructed primarily from found vintage materials — photographs, postcards, books, and book pages — sourced through an intuitive and highly selective collecting practice for their visual character, history, and emotional weight. His compositions embrace the worn qualities of aged matter: softened color, surface texture, staining, fading, and the imperfections accumulated over time. Themes of nostalgia, memory, belonging, and connection run throughout. By recontextualizing these materials, Brierley produces layered works that honor the original life of each object while opening it toward new meaning.