Tracey Adams

Adams’ lifelong interests in music, science, mathematics and art are constantly being woven and re-woven into her encaustic paintings, collage pieces, and works on paper. Influenced by her time with John Cage during graduate school, Adams is drawn to intersections– intentional and happenstance, metered and asymmetric, organic and geometric. Her background as a musician can be seen especially in terms of the visual intervals and gestural line work in her paintings, as well as the physical engagement and sense of performance that is a part of her studio practice. Her works attempt to create environments that she searches to find within herself and serve as a type of visual diary exploring life’s impermanence. She applies a sense of simplicity and experimentation to her practice, expressing beauty through a feeling of calm, inside and out, a sense that she identifies as an enormous challenge in these times.

Adams completed her Master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1980. Concurrently, she studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce, and her work is included in the collections of the Bakersfield Art Museum, the Crocker Museum of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.