Deidre Adams

Adaptation, 12 x 24 inches, acrylic & mixed media on panel. ©2010 Deidre Adams
After a week of utter insanity, things are quiet now. I’m getting caught up on all that I’ve let slide, like answering emails and attending to other outstanding issues. A blog post seems in order for closure on the the thesis exhibition.
As [...]

top – detail of Accretion No. 1: Periwinkle, 24 x 24 inches, acrylic on panel
bottom – detail of Fragment No. 4, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on panel
Did I really have a vacation a couple of weeks ago? It seems that I did, but the last couple of weeks since my return have been so [...]

Parable (working title), 36 x 36 inches. Thread, handmade paper, and acrylic paint on panel. ©2010 Deidre Adams.
I’ve been working more on my paintings in preparation for the thesis show. Although I originally started this series from an idea about the brain and cells and memory and dreams (see A State of Resonance), that’s all [...]

Untitled, 12 x 12 inches, acrylic on panel, ©2009 Deidre Adams.
In my last post, I discussed my angst over having to finally settle on what kind of work I wanted to have in my Thesis/Portfolio show. A few days later, our class went to visit the site to get an idea of what the space [...]

Kitchen, 36 x 36 inches, acrylic & oil on canvas, ©2007 Deidre Adams
Last Friday was the first day of my last semester in the BFA program at Metro. I’m only taking one class:
ART 4701 – Snr Exp Studio: Portfolio Devl
This studio course requires the student to present finished work in a senior thesis show, [...]

Entangled II, 24 x 24 inches, ©2009 Deidre Adams
Now that school is just about over, I thought I would start posting some of the work that I’ve been doing this semester. Besides the Art Theory & Criticism class, I had two studio classes, Painting V and Printmaking II: Lithography. I’ll start with Painting.
Painting V is [...]

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 [...]

Image from a self-portrait project done in 2003
As part of the curriculum for painting classes at Metro, we are required to do several writing assignments. One of them is to do a written response to a particular book. I had already read the first book on the reading list, so I went to number 2, [...]

This summer, I had the great good fortune to go on a 12-day trip to France, visiting Paris for 4 days and then spending the remaining time in Giverny and the surrounding area. I went with a group of fellow painting students and our instructor, Amy Metier. Giverny is the home of Monet’s Garden. The [...]

Untitled, 12 x 12 inches, ©Deidre Adams
When I finished up my spring semester of school back in mid-May, it seemed I had the whole summer before me and many grandiose plans swirled through my brain about all the great work I was going to make and the many things I would accomplish. Well, here it [...]