Lisa Adams (painter)
| Lisa Adams | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Lisa Adams 1955 Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A. 1977 Scripps College, Claremont, California; University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; M.F.A. 1980 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California |
| Known for | Painting |
| Awards | Fulbright Award (1996), Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, Durfee ARC Grant |
Lisa Adams (born 1955) is an American painter who emerged in the mid 1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of Eli Broad, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, the Laguna Museum of Art and the Edward Albee Foundation. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Combining images of dystopic environments and unlikely human-built structures, Lisa Adams is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Though her work is not directly about issues resulting from climate change or ecological disaster, her paintings reference a significant shift in our thinking and our planet.
Lisa Adams' work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is represented by CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles, where her 2013 solo exhibition Second Life was reviewed in the LA Times by Holly Myers. Her most recent exhibition America The Beautiful ran from September 12 - October 31, 2015 and her upcoming exhibition at CB1 Gallery is slated for January, 2016.
Lisa also blogs on Los Angeles art for the Huffington Post.
Adams knew she would be an artist at age ten after seeing a reproduction of Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory. She also recalls being fascinated by the Charles and Ray Eames short film Powers of Ten and by a Karl Benjamin non-objective painting when she was thirteen years old.
In 1981, shortly after graduating from the Claremont Graduate University, Adams and artist Craig Kauffman (with whom she was romantically involved at the time) moved to SoHo in New York City. She often referred to that time as her real education, where she was influenced by artists such as Susan Rothenberg and Julian Schnabel. Adams' work was included in group exhibitions in the East Village and SoHo.
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