Lisa Adams
Lisa Adams[1] is a painter and public artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Adams graduated with a B.A. in Painting from Scripps College in Claremont, California and received her M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University.
She is the recipient of a Fulbright Professional Scholar Award, a Brody Arts Fund Fellowship and a Durfee ARC Grant. Her work 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 has successfully taught in many reputed art departments throughout the Los Angeles area and abroad, including the University of Southern California, the Claremont Graduate University and Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles.
In addition to her practice as an artist, Adams works as an independent curator, who in 2000, co-founded Crazy Space, an alternative exhibition space, in Santa Monica. She is also the author of FM*, (Peeps Island Press, 1999) a How To book about painting, based on her teachings at the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture between 1997-1999.
Lisa Adams has been an artist-in-residence in Slovenia, Finland, Japan, Holland and Costa Rica. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She was also commission by BMW of North America to paint an ArtCar. She has been included in A Day in the Life of the American Woman, Bullfinch Press, 2005, and has completed a public art commission for the new Fire Station No. 64 in Watts, Los Angeles. Her most recent public art project is the Chatsworth Station for the Los Angeles Metro Orange Line Extension to be completed in 2012.
Video interviews with Field Sells on Pretty Rough and Tough and Abel Alejandre on Atelier Visit.
In September 2010 Adams' work was included in the group exhibition at Pedersen Projects "PRELUDE TO AN APOCALYPSE: LANDSCAPE IN AN ERA OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATIONS," featuring Los Angeles artists Lisa Adams, Amir H. Fallah, Wendell Gladstone and Greg Rose. In 2009, the artist exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum [2] in "Edenistic Divergence," curated by Andi Campognone [3]
In the fall of 2011, Adams' first monograph book titled Vicissitude of Circumstance published by ZERO+ Publishing will be available for advance purchase. James Scarborough's essay that will appear in the book was recently published on the Huffington Post. She will also have two solo exhibitions, the first in September, 2011 of small gouache work at Offramp Gallery and the second in December of oil paintings at CB1 Gallery in downtown Los Angeles.
Some of her works are Given That All Things Are Equal 2009, In Anticipation Of Aberrancy 2009 and "A Morass Of Contradiction" 2010.
Currently she is represented by CB1 Gallery in Los Angeles and blogs on art for the Huffington Post.
