Deidre Adams

Deno’s 6&85  ©2009 Deidre Adams.
It seems that the beginning of a new year is a time for most people to want to take stock of their lives and to resolve to change themselves in some way. I decided a long time ago that making resolutions was a sure setup for failure. So, although there is [...]

I haven’t posted for awhile because I’m deep in the throes of updating my web site — I thought the break between semesters would be a good time for that. But for some reason, I always underestimate the scope of this project and it always takes so much longer than it ought to. I needed [...]

Aggregation 04-ma023, ©Kwang Young Chun
This summer I’m taking a class called Hand Papermaking for Artists. It’s being taught by one of my favorite teachers at MSCD, Bonnie Ferrill Roman, who is also a fabulous artist. She uses handmade paper, branches, and other objects from nature in her sculpture work.
The class has been a lot of [...]

Shades of White, 48 x 48 inches, ©2007 Deidre C. Adams
This past weekend I’ve been at the joint SAQA/SDA conference, Breaking New Ground, which was held in conjunction with the opening of ArtQuilt Elements in Wayne, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. This was a great opportunity for me to meet a lot of people whom [...]

Work glove ©2008 Deidre C. Adams
Closely related to the one-shoe phenomenon is the one-glove phenomenon. This particular specimen was located at a new-home construction site near my dad’s house in Albuquerque, where I had been visiting him a couple of weeks ago. In all the time I was growing up in that neighborhood and for [...]

Winter Diary, 37 x 80 inches, ©2006 Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer
This piece is one of my favorite works by Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer. It feels like a landscape but isn’t, necessarily. Its quiet beauty and luscious blues evoke a restful peace, yet the rhythm and movement of the circles and color blocks give a sense of movement [...]

A week ago last Friday, graphic design “rock star” Stefan Sagmeister came to Denver as part of a tour to promote his new book, Things I have Learned in My Life So Far. The event was sponsored by the Colorado chapter of the AIGA (at one time the American Institute of Graphic Arts, but a [...]

T-Rex construction © 2003 Deidre Adams
I’ve been inspired to post this photo today by Lori Witzel, whose blog I discovered after she posted a comment on mine. Her photographic aesthetic is very similar to mine, so naturally I think it is outstanding. She posts many great images of rusting things – a subject very near [...]

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 [...]

Composition in Blue and Sienna
© 2003
My obsession with working abstractly has probably been fed by two things over the years: one – working with the quilt medium, which, if done with traditional patterns, involves working largely with geometric shapes, and two – if I can be honest here – the fact that I’m not too [...]