Tracey Adams

Tracey Adams

Abstract Art

November 22, 2016

Tracey Adams is a contemporary artist that's known for creating artworks at the intersection of "art, math, and music."1 Being a former musician herself, Tracey Adams often uses rhythm to explore relationships between people and objects. The influence of music is visible in the artist's highly rhythmical artworks that often include visual intervals, patterns, and similar references. Mathematics, on the other hand, is employed to pre-determine a number of colors that will be used when creating an artwork, the number of times they will appear and the way they will be aligned in the compositions.

Adam's new oil and encaustic arts dairy isn't reserved but its bursting with emotions
Tracey Adams - Collage 1

Tracey Adams' Life and Work

Tracey Adams is an American artist born in 1954. She studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Ever since she was three years old the artist felt a strong urge to create. Regardless whether she makes collages, paintings or monotypes all of her artworks share a common thread that separates them from works of other artists. Tracy Adams grew up in the house full of Japanese prints that she often uses in her adult life as inspiration for her works. Her acclaimed Folded series, for instance, is reminiscent of the ancient Japanese art of origami, as the artist used folded paper to represent time spent in the studio. Every paper was folded a number of times that corresponds with the date in the month - once for the first day of the month, two times for the second, etc.

Ever since she was three years old the Tracey Adams felt a strong urge to create

New artwork made by using encaustic, graphite, oil and collage in the creation process
Tracey Adams - Spaces without Partitions, 2016 (left) / Everything Causes Everything Else, 2016 (right)

Deeply Personal Imagery by Tracy Adams

In a way, Tracy Adams is a creator of her own world. Deeply personal, her work represents a unique type of visual diary as the artist externalizes her internal thoughts and emotions trough her abstract paintings and prints that will be exhibited in the gallery. Tracy Adams is inspired by contradictions, like the tension between organic and the geometric that's often visible in the artist best works. In 2014 around the same time that her folded series, was born she also begun to experiment with the technique of creating monotypes. She was attracted by the possibility of creating beautiful new works momentarily by pressing one surface against the other and produced hundreds of monotypes by employing the same technique.

The artist's is known for employing a variety of tools to externalize her internal world

To get in contact with the artist visit her home page
Tracey Adams - Lumenis 14

California as a Source of Inspiration

In her interviews, Tracy Adams often states that her neighboring coasts of California are one of her main influences as she often depicts wonders of the sea in her images. Her new project about medicines from the sea was inspired by scientific researchers of micro-organisms collected during ocean dives. These organisms are being researched for medical purposes as scientists believe that they can make a big break-trough in curing some of the hardest medical lines of young and adult population such as cancer, malaria, AIDS, and similar diseases. The artist was awarded Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for this particular project.

Tracey Adams is represented by IdeelArt gallery.

She lives and works in northern California.

References:

  1. Seed J.Tracey Adams: Everything in My Life Is Interconnected, Huffington Post [Novembar 20, 2016]

  2. Adams T. Statement, Tracey Adams Art [Novembar 20, 2016]

Featured image : Tracey Adams Portrait
Images courtesy of the artist

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