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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.
Tracey Adams Art
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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 theSchool 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, theMonterey Museum of Art
The Monterey Museum of Art (MMA) an art museum located in Monterey, California. It was founded in 1959 as a chapter of the American Federation of Arts. The Monterey Museum of Art collects, preserves, and interprets the art of California from the ...
, the Fresno Art Museum
The Fresno Art Museum is an art museum in Fresno, California. The museum's collection includes contemporary art, modern art, Mexican and Mexican-American art, and Pre-Columbian sculpture.
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, 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.
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Tracey Adams Art
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