Pat Adams
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Pat Adams | |
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Born | [1] Stockton, California, U.S.[1] | July 8, 1928
Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA 1949)[1] California College of the Arts University of the Pacific School of the Art Institute of Chicago Brooklyn Museum Art School |
Known for | Painting |
Awards | Fulbright Scholarship (1956), Jimmy Ernst Award (1996)[2] |
Pat Adams (born July 8, 1928) is an American modernist painter and mixed-media artist. She is a member of the National Academy of Design.
Biography
Adams was born in Stockton, California. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949, after which she took courses at the
In 1956 she won a
Style
Her style, a mixture of modernism and abstraction, is described by Adams as "yield[ing] more to qualities than ideas, more to matter than its naming".[6] She continues, "...I sense a release of potentiality, a release of more than we know....I conclude that of whatever else the artist's effort may consist, it abounds in restless projective extension; innately it bounds toward the vision of an anticipatory not-as-yet."[7]
Exhibitions
Adams's first solo exhibition was in 1954 at the
Collections
Reviews
Her first solo exhibition at Zabriskie was described in the New York Times as "quiet, but intense," while simultaneously abstract and "filled with lyrical allusions". Among the exhibited works was, Ribbons of Breath (1954), which used brightly colored, intertwining shapes in gouache and watercolor.[8] Adams work was later characterized as "suggest[ing] a desire to assert the tangible actuality of what appears before the eye".[9]
In 1960, Dore Ashton asserted that Pat Adams's works detail her "visual experiences of nature and her spiritual insights about the cosmos".[10] Ashton places Adams in the same category as artists like Odilon Redon and Mark Tobey, in that they each "seek to find what is 'within' the inmost secrets of the universe".[10] Hilton Kramer further noted that Adams has a "mystical temperament" and is "extraordinarily inventive in conjuring up a world of delicate perceptions and inward feelings".[11] Kramer also notes that her "paintings fill the eye with an almost hypnotic bath of completely delightful visual detail".[11]
In 2003, Adams exhibited a collection of new paintings at the Zabriskie Gallery including both small and larger works. Zabriskie describes this collection as "build[ing] gritty encrustations over rudimentary patterns and shapes...result[ing] in a friction between the particular and the universal".[9] Some paintings included in this exhibition were Into the Garden (2003), Situation (2002), Following From (2002), and What Follows (2003). What Follows, in particular, has been described as "a soft, dusty mist vibrat[ing] through the space...almost impossibly, shift[ing] on occasion into liquid, giving buoyancy to the dot-filled oval and the circles in its field".[8]
A 50th anniversary exhibition of her first show at Zabriskie and the start of her relationship with dealer Virginia Zabriskie was held 2005. Martica Sawin's essay accompanied this exhibition, in which she describes Adams's paintings Arriving, (1994) and Late, New, Again, Round (1985) in the same in much of the same context as Ribbons of Breath. Adams's Sweetness (1990) "offers a microcosm of the many divergent possibilities one might encounter traversing the cosmos of the mind's eye",[9] and one of her newer paintings Be/Hold (2004) "has the power to draw the eye toward the minutiae of its variegated surfaces".[9] Overall, Pat Adams's work has been well-received, and she's even been called "one of the most important abstract painters working today".[8]
Awards
In 1995 she won the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.[citation needed]
Publications
- "Remarks on Their Medium by Four Painters" in Artforum, 1975
- "On Working" in Quadrille, Fall 1977
- Interview with Robert Boyers in Bennington Review, 1977
- "Subject and Being" in Art Journal, Spring, 1982[7]
References
- ^ a b c d "Biography". Zabriskie Gallery. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ^ "Pat Adams: New Paintings". Zabriskie Gallery. April 2003. Archived from the original on 27 July 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ISBN 978-1-135-63889-4.
- ISBN 978-1-887149-17-4.
- ^ Adams, Pat (October 25, 2003). "Untitled Lecture, Alumni Symposium, University of California, Berkeley" (PDF).
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- ^ a b c Esplund, Lance. "After Nature, But Never Imitative". The New York Sun.
- ^ a b c d Sawin, Martica. "Pat Adams Paintings: 1954 - 2004". Zabriskie Gallery. Archived from the original on 2011-09-28.
- ^ a b Ashton, Dore (March 3, 1960). "Art: A Mystic Dreamer". New York Times.
- ^ a b Kramer, Hilton (November 27, 1965). "The Imaginative World of Pat Adams". New York Times.
External links
- Pat Adams on Artnet
- Pat Adams papers, (ca. 1948-1992) from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art