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Tracey Adams
tracey@traceyadamsart.com/traceyadamsart.com
Solo Exhibitions
2018-19
Primordial Soup (an installation) San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA (Curator: Cathy Kimball)
2016
Cause and Effect: Mapping a Dialogue Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2014
Patterns of Infinity Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto and Winfield Gallery, Carmel
2013
Lumenis Winfield Gallery, Carmel
2012
Oblique Intention Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle and Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2011
Perspectives in Balance Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Between Gesture and Geometry Fresno Art Museum, Fresno
2010
Elements of Harmony Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
Between Gesture and Geometry Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
Spontaneous Meditations Anne Loucks Gallery, Chicago
2009
Synapse/Synapses Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
Recent Encaustic Paintings Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle
Mindful Inversions Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2008
Recent Encaustic Paintings Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle
2007
Music of Spheres, Rhythm of Squares Melanee Cooper Gallery, Chicago
Thinking in Circles Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2006
The Perfection of Imperfection Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto & Winterowd Fine Art, Santa Fe
2005
The Symmetry of Asymmetry Monterey Museum of Art and Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2003
Routines and Rituals Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2002
Intervals: Gesture to Icon Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City and Bryant Street Gallery,
2001
Intimate Possibilities Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver and Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2000
Broken Symmetry Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City
1999
New Work Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco
1998
New Monotypes Winfield Gallery, Carmel
1996
Ambiguities Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Storied Paper Carl Cherry Center for the Arts Carmel, CA (Curator: Robert Reese)
Brand Spanking Blue Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Work X 5 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Art on Paper NY, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2016
PAPER: burned, cut, folded and stitched Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA (Curator: Tracey Adams)
Art on Paper K. Imperial Fine Art, NYC, NY
In the Abstract Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
24th Annual Group Exhibition Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015
Between The Spaces, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR (Curator: Elise Wagner)
Art on Paper, K. Imperial Fine Art, NYC, NY
ArtHamptons, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Adaptations, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
eXXpectations, Cornell Museum of Art, DelrayBeach, FL (Curator: Melanie Johanson)
Momentum Transferred, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
SHIFT: Five Decades of Contemporary California Painting Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey
The Circle Game Tucson Art Museum, Tucson
Outside/In K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco
2013
Facing Forward, Recent Acquisitions: 2000 to Present Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (Curator of Exhibitions: Michael Giaquinto
Elephant in the Room: Contemporary Work in Encaustic Laconia Gallery, Boston (Curators: Linda Cordner and James Hull)
Conference Instructors Exhibition Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown
2012
Winter Exhibition: Recent Acquisitions Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield
LA Art Show Gebert Gallery, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles
Affordable Art Fair Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle Center, Seattle
2011
Action Abstraction Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
Rock, Scissors, Paper: Bay Area Collage Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
Third Anniversary Show Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
San Francisco Fine Art Fair Bryant Street Gallery, San Francisco
2010
Vessels Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield (Curator: Aaron Weisenfeld)
Los Angeles Art Fair Los Angeles Convention Center, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2010
Working with Wax: Contemporary Encaustic Painting in Northern California Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA (Curator: Thomas Morphis)
2009
PRINTED Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA (Juror: Archana Horsting)
Diverse Impressions: Bay Area Abstraction Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (Curator: George Rivera)
225º F: Encaustic Encounters Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC (Curator: Brook Bower)
4th Annual Encaustic Invitational Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson (Curator: Elizabeth Meigs)
2008
trans+lucent Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
New Encaustic Paintings Julie Nester Gallery, Park City
Relative Geometries Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson (Curator: Elizabeth Meigs)
Contemporary Ruin Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA (Curator: Olivia Luther)
A View of the Collection Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz
2007
Three Encaustic Painters: Tracey Adams, Mark Rediske, Tony Scherman Carson Masuoka Gallery, Denver
Encaustic Works 2007 Ball State University, Muncie, IN and Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY (Juror: Joan Snyder)
California Views National Steinbeck Museum, Salinas, CA (Curator: Scott Shields)
Affordable Art Fair Julie Nester Gallery and Bryant Street Gallery, New York City
2006
SFMOMA Art Auction 2006 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Invitational Auction (fundraiser) San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
Art (212) The 69th Regiment Armory, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City
2005
Gallery Artists Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe
Works on Paper The 69th Regiment Armory, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City
Monothon San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
2004
Between the Lines: Traveling Full Circle Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel
2003
Images of Vermont (traveling exhibition) Andy Warhol Museum, Medzilaborce, Slovak Republic; Východoslovenská galéria v Kosiciach, Kosice, Slovak Republic; Sarisská galéria, Presov, Slovak Republic; and US Steel Towers, Pittsburgh
2001
Juried Exhibition Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey (Juror: Cathy Kimball)
2000
Invitational Miniature Show Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
Artstravaganza Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga (Curator: Helene Seeman)
1999
Small Things Come in Good Packages Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City
1998
A Three Point Perspective Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel
Gallery Artists Solomon Projects, Atlanta
1996
Five Gallery Artists Los Angeles County Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, Los Angeles
The Monotype: Method to Magic (Curator: Tobin Keller), Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA
1995
Janet Turner National Print Competition CSU Chico, CA (Juror: Marion Epting)
National Works on Paper VII Valdosta University, Valdosta, GA (Juror: William Walmsley)
Awards/Honors
2015
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2014
Visual Artist, Music at Menlo Chamber Music Festival & Institute, Atherton, CA
2007
Third-place, California Views: Portals and People,National Steinbeck Museum, Salinas, CA
2005
Residency invitation, Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE, to collaborate on public project in Slovak Republic with Virginia Folkestad and Lena Leskova
2004
Artist’s Grant, Ministry of Culture, Slovak Republic, Between the Lines: Traveling Full Circle
Publication invitation, Trillium Press (Brisbane, CA) for a series of monoprints
2003
Artist’s Grant, US Department of State, to support Images of Vermont exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum, Medzilaborce, Slovakia
Artist’s Grant, US Steel, to support Images of Vermont exhibit at the Andy Warhol Museum, Medzilaborce, Slovakia and US Steel Towers, Pittsburgh
1995
Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach to participate in “The Transient Image”
Artist’s Grant (printmaking), The Community Foundation of Monterey
Artist’s Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Museum Collections
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno
Hunterdon Art Museum, Hunterdon, NJ
New Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey
Museum of Contemporary Art, Hot Springs, AR
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
Public Collections
Beverly Hills Public Library, Beverly Hills
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, Dallas
David & Lucille Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus
Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, Boston
US Department of the Army, Washington DC
US Department of the Army, Seoul, Korea
US Department of State, Washington DC
University of California, Santa Cruz
UC Medical Center, San Francisco
University of Wisconsin Medical Center, Madison
Selected Corporate Collections
Adobe Systems, San Jose
AT&T Corporate Headquarters, Los Angeles
Canon Corporation, San Jose
The Chubb Group, Warren, NJ
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn
General Electric Corporation, Stamford, CT
Hallmark Corporate Headquarters, Kansas City, MO
Intel, Inc., San Jose
McKinsey & Co., Washington, DC
Pfizer Pharmaceutical, New York City
Sony Corporation, San Jose
Sprint Corporate Headquarters, Overland Park, KS
Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA
Toyota Corporation, Torrance, CA
VISA Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco
Publications
Catalogs
2014
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence,Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Patterns of Infinity, Paintings of Tracey Adams, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto.
Ninth Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson.
2013
Lumenis, New Paintings of Tracey Adams, Winfield Gallery, Carmel.
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence,Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Cape Cod Museum of Art.
Elephant in the Room: Contemporary Work in Encaustic, Laconia Gallery, Boston.
2009
Insight/Inside, LA St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles.
2007
Encaustic Works 2007, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
2006
SFMOMA Art Auction 2006, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
2005
The Symmetry of Asymmetry, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey.
2004
Between the Lines: Traveling Full Circle, Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel.
2003
Images of Vermont (traveling exhibition), Andy Warhol Museum, Medzilaborce, Slovakia.
2002
Intervals: Gesture to Icon, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City.
2001
Intimate Possibilities, Carson Masuoka Gallery, Denver.
Books
2015
Linda Womack. Embracing Encaustic: Learning to Paint with Beeswax, Vol. III
2013
Catherine Nash. Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper & Encaustic.
2012
Michelle Belto. Paper + Wax: Techniques in Handmade Paper and Encaustic. Cincinnati: North Light Books.
2010
Lissa Rankin. Encaustic: A Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax. Watson-Gupthill.
2009
Tracey Adams. Mindful Inversions (Santa Cruz Museum of Art). San Francisco: epressbooks.
Selected Reviews/Articles
2013
“Lumenis: New Paintings by Tracey Adams on View at the Winfield Gallery.” artdaily.org, 15 April.
Joanne Mattera. “Extravagent Light” (catalog essay). Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic. Dennis, MA: The Cape Cod Museum of Art.
2012
Debbi Lester. “Tracey Adams and Radix 3.” Art Access, 21 (Summer).
2011
Donald Munro.“The Human Touch Exhibit Focuses on Form.” Fresno Bee, February 3.
2009
Erin Clark. “Art Book Report: Mindful Inversions.” Artworks, Fall.
Regina Cano. “Exhibit Uses Patterns to Stimulate the Senses.” Chautauqua Daily, July 29.
Christine Robinson and Alicia Hawkins. Heart to Heart (cover art). Boston: Skinner House.
2008
Geoff Wichert. “Color from the Hive.” 15 Bytes, September (www.artistsofutah.org).
2007
Michael Paglia. “Four Encaustic Artists.” Denver Westword, December 20.
2005
Lisa Crawford Watson. “The Symmetry of Asymmetry.” Monterey Herald, February 17.
Rick Deragon. “Shape Shifter.” Coast Weekly, January 20.
2004
“Advanced States of Concentration.” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Winter.
2003
“Pripomina vlnu i cudnu husenicu.” Korzar, March 24.
Miloslava Hriadelova. “Hladam ludi, ktori ma zaujmu.” Kosicky Vecer, March 26.
Rick Deragon. “Ancient Voyages.” Coast Weekly, November 26.
2002
Rick Deragon. “Her Art, Her Story.” Coast Weekly, November 7.
2001
Berin Golonu. “Previews: Tracey Adams.” Artweek, November 1.
2000
Ann Nichols. “Artstravaganza 2000.” Chattanooga Free Press, May 21.
1997
Terri Vandercook. “Women Artists Reflect Diversity.” Adventures in Dining, October 18.
1996
Kathryn M. Nichols. “Monotype Artist’s Plate is Full.” Monterey Herald, February 1, p. 8.
George Rivera. “Magical Monoprints.” Artistwriter, March/April.
Lisa Crawford Watson. “Tracey Adams: Orchestrating Her Artistry.” Monterey Herald, August 4.
1995
“Show of Monotypes, Woodcuts Opens with Public Reception.” Monterey Peninsula Review, May.
Terri Vandercook. “Synchronicity.” Coast Weekly, May 25.
Interviews/Presentations
2017
Tracey Adams. “Cut and Paste”, Professional Artist Magazine, January
2016
Ora Sorensen. “Artists Paint with Wax.” Professional Artist Magazine, November
Kathryn Markel, “In Conversation with Tracey Adams,” www.markelfinearts.com, September
Elise Morris, “The Studio Work blog”, March 22
2014
Visual Artist, Music at Menlo Chamber Music Festival & Institute, Atherton, CA, July-August.
2013
“Cannibalism and the Art of Collage.” Presentation at the 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, 31 May.
2011
Lynette Haggard. Interview with Tracey Adams, Carmel, CA, July 5 (lynettehaggard.blogspot.com).
2008
“Becoming a Professional Artist.” Presentation at IEA conference, 10 May.
2006
Julie Karabenick. GEOFORM online interview on geometric form and structure in contemporary abstract art.
2003
Andrea Tomaschova. Vytvarnicka (television interview). Vychodoslovenska Galeria, March 25.
2001
Maia Carroll. “Life in the Arts” (printmaking demonstration/interview). KMEX-TV, January 17.
1998
Heidi Hybl. “Focus on the Arts” (interview). KUSP-FM, Santa Cruz, CA, July 1.
Education
1979-1981
Graduate work in printmaking, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
MM, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston
1978
BA, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles