Adams was awarded a 2011 Strauss Fellowship from the Arts Council of Fairfax.
Artist Statement
My current body of work activates the perceptual connection between artist, object (or environment), and viewer.
The paintings reflect my meditative process of repetitive mark making through the transparent layers of subtle atmospheric and textured surfaces. These chaotic marks are juxtaposed with the structure of a regulated rhythm of horizontal lines (not unlike those found on maps, graphs and notebook paper). The combination resonates with a quiet vibration that propels the viewer into an image whose color scheme and composition remain ambiguously familiar, as if from an incomplete memory that is nonetheless vivid. The combination of process and product are an amalgam of time and space where memory and experience of the present meet.
The site-specific drawings were created on location, for that specific location. Typically, they only last for the duration of the exhibition, and are destroyed when the exhibition is over. As a result of this situation, the transitory drawings require the viewer to be in a specific place during a specific time period to experience the work first hand. The feathery line-quality of the graphite drawings evoke plumes of smoke or light reflected on the surface of water, equally transitory and in keeping with the larger work’s momentary existence. Together these components offer a metaphor for evolution - moving the viewer through creation, existence, and eventual destruction.
Artist Statement
My current body of work activates the perceptual connection between artist, object (or environment), and viewer.
The paintings reflect my meditative process of repetitive mark making through the transparent layers of subtle atmospheric and textured surfaces. These chaotic marks are juxtaposed with the structure of a regulated rhythm of horizontal lines (not unlike those found on maps, graphs and notebook paper). The combination resonates with a quiet vibration that propels the viewer into an image whose color scheme and composition remain ambiguously familiar, as if from an incomplete memory that is nonetheless vivid. The combination of process and product are an amalgam of time and space where memory and experience of the present meet.
The site-specific drawings were created on location, for that specific location. Typically, they only last for the duration of the exhibition, and are destroyed when the exhibition is over. As a result of this situation, the transitory drawings require the viewer to be in a specific place during a specific time period to experience the work first hand. The feathery line-quality of the graphite drawings evoke plumes of smoke or light reflected on the surface of water, equally transitory and in keeping with the larger work’s momentary existence. Together these components offer a metaphor for evolution - moving the viewer through creation, existence, and eventual destruction.
