Deidre Adams

Sidewalk (Homage to Diebenkorn), 38 x 38 inches, acrylic on canvas, ©2009 Deidre Adams
This painting recently came back home to me from a temporary exhibition at the Colorado State Capitol, in the office of the Colorado State Speaker of the House, Terrance Carroll. Along with the work of other Metro art students, Sidewalk was one [...]

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974

Completion through removal. Abstractions of surfaces. Not-building, not-to-rebuild, not-built-space. Creating spatial complexity, reading new openings against old surfaces. Light admitted into space or beyond surfaces that are cut. Breaking and entering. Approaching structural collapse, separating the parts at the point of collapse.
— Gordon Matta-Clark, 1971

I’ve just spent a couple of weeks researching [...]

Horizon VIII, 25 x 25 inches, ©2007

Horizon IX, 25 x 25 inches, ©2007

Horizon X, 25 x 25 inches, ©2007
The influence of the vast horizon line is something that’s buried deep within my psyche. A couple of times a year, I drive the 450-mile journey between Denver and Albuquerque, where my family lives. A lot of [...]

Strata II, 48 x 60 inches, © 1999
As part of our work for the Distinctive Directions show, each artist agreed to write about why we work in a series. As I was trying to tell my story in that regard, it got me thinking back to my experiences in Nancy Crow’s workshops. These were [...]