Tracey Adams (born 1954) is an American abstract painter and printmaker. She was born in
Los Angeles, the daughter of a ceramist. Her artworks reflect a strong interest in musical patterns, rhythms, lyrical compositional elements and what she calls a sense of performance. She lives and works in
Carmel, California.
Education
Adams earned her BA from
Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles in 1978. She studied printmaking and painting at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachus ...
in Boston from 1979 to 1981 and earned her master's degree from the
New England Conservatory of Music in 1980.
Awards
Adams has received several fellowships and grants, including the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2015, a grant from the US Department of State and the Ministry of Culture, and a
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship.
Exhibitions
Adams has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout the United States and in Europe, including the
Andy Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce, Slovak Republic.
Collections
Work by Adams is part of the permanent collections of several museums, including the
Bakersfield Museum of Art, the
Monterey Museum of Art
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, the
Fresno Art Museum
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Mission Statement
"The Fresno Art Museum offers a dynami ...
, the
Tucson Museum of Art, and the
Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Her work is also part of multiple corporate collections, including those of Adobe Systems, AT&T Corporate Headquarters, Hallmark Corporate Headquarters, Sony Corporation, Albemarle Corporation, and Intel.
References
External links
Tracey Adams Art
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1954 births
Living people
21st-century American painters
Artists from Los Angeles
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts alumni
New England Conservatory alumni
Painters from California
21st-century American women painters
20th-century American women painters
20th-century American painters