Deidre Adams

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 [...]

The commission I’m working on is for the new Ritz-Carlton in Lake Tahoe, set to open later this year. This was a very good contract for Translations Gallery, including several pieces by multiple gallery artists. In addition to the commission piece, they also bought this piece:

Horizon IV, 24 x 24, ©2006 Deidre Adams
And this piece:

Horizon [...]

Today I took the dust cover off of my beloved Juki DDL-8700-7 for the first time in months. I haven’t done any sewing since the beginning of the semester back in January. I’ve been very busy with my studio classes in printmaking, watermedia, and painting, as well as a class for my general studies science [...]

Just kidding about that last part — monetary rewards are unlikely here! But I have been very much enjoying my papermaking class. In fact, it’s quite the all-consuming activity, involving many different materials and techniques.
Over the last several weeks, we’ve been making sheets of paper from cotton and abaca fibers which were obtained as “half [...]

Untitled, ©2008 Deidre Adams
After a bit of a hiatus, I’m so happy to finally get some time to go back into the studio, as of yesterday. This is a shot of a piece I started a long time ago but haven’t had time to work on. Yesterday I finally sat down and finished the quilting, [...]

Façade IV: Chrome Oxide
39 x 60 inches
Here is the finished version of the piece I wrote about on Jan. 3. This series is inspired by walls of old buildings which have been painted over numerous times, with the top layers wearing away to reveal what lies beneath; sometimes there’s also graffiti, and all of it [...]

Well, you have to expect that the first few posts are going to be awkward ramblings until the neophyte blogger can find her voice and get into a rhythm. There is so much to learn, and while I am slightly more technical than the average artist, I’m finding this all very bewildering. But my original [...]