Deidre Adams

Contingent, Eva Hesse, 1969
This piece has been the focus of my attention for the last several weeks. I just finished writing a research paper on it for my Understanding Visual Culture class. Eva Hesse created this work during the last year of her life, mostly through the assistance of other people, because of her illness [...]

Thanks to everyone who commented about the Eggleston photo. Deb and Wanda, your reactions are similar to mine. Lori, you have a depth of experience and a rich vocabulary for analysis that I aspire to one day! Magsramsay, I’m not sure how big the original is – a quick Google search did not reveal the [...]

One of the reasons I decided to go back to school was to gain a greater understanding of art. I often had a feeling that a lot of it was beyond my grasp and that if I could get a handle on some of the things that other people were trying to do with their [...]

One of the assignments that seems to be a big fave of art school classes is the self-portrait. I get to do this at least once and sometimes twice per semester. Here is the first one I did, in an introductory digital imaging class. Since this was the first project we did, mine is rather [...]

It was just about this time two years ago that I decided I wanted to go back to school and get a BFA. I had been making art for some time, more or less self taught except for a couple of drawing and painting classes I had taken as electives while working on other degrees, [...]