Deidre Adams

Surface Tension, 30 x 40 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2011 Deidre Adams
 
Surface Tension (detail), ©2011 Deidre Adams
New Year’s Day is my favorite day of the year. Starting with the prior November, the craziness of the holidays takes hold and makes me feel anxious, and I kind of just hold my breath until it’s all over. [...]

Sublimation, 30 x 40 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2011 Deidre Adams 
After finishing the Anythink commission, which had occupied the better part of my time for about three months, I felt a little rootless. I tried working on another textile piece, but it just didn’t want to cooperate. So I brought out all of the paintings [...]

Informal Analogy, 48 x 48 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2011 Deidre Adams
Before I say anything else, in case people don’t care to read all the way through this, I would just like to point out that I’ve added a lot of new work to my website. Please take a look and let me know what [...]

More from the Cerescapes series.

Cerescape No. 4, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, ©2011 Deidre Adams
 

Cerescape No. 5, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, ©2011 Deidre Adams
 

Cerescape No. 6, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, ©2011 Deidre Adams
 

Cerescape No. 1, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on canvas, ©2011 Deidre Adams
Here are a couple of my latest 12×12 paintings. I’ve decided to call them “Cerescapes.” Because it’s exhausting to keep coming up with new names, I like to give the smaller ones the same name with a series number. My last series of [...]

Divergence of Gesture, 20 x 20 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2011 Deidre Adams
A few days ago while perusing the shelves at my local library, my eye was caught by a small book called Art and Soul by Thomas McConeghey. I was immediately hooked by the first paragraph of the Foreword, written by Thomas Moore:
“We have [...]

So-Called Vital Activity, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic and mixed media on panel, ©2011 Deidre Adams
One of the dilemmas faced by artists is the multitude of available ways in which we might wish to express ourselves. Am I a fiber/textile artist? Am I a painter? Photographer? Printmaker? It’s so vexing to have to choose. But [...]

Organic Compound, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2010 Deidre Adams
I’m finally calling this painting done. Not that I haven’t already done that – twice – but I kept thinking it needed something more. I went to a meeting of artist friends on Friday night, and the next day, while thinking about a conversation [...]

Orthographic Rule, 24 x 36 inches, acrylic on canvas, ©2010 Deidre Adams
While considering the comments regarding my last post on the topic of meaning, it dawned on me that I never did post my final thesis statement written for my BFA exhibition, although I did go on about it at length. While my focus has [...]

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 [...]