Education
1979 - 1981 Graduate work in printmaking, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980 MM, New England Co nservatory of Music, Boston
1978 BA, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Primordial Soup 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
2011 Between Gesture and Geometry Fresno Art Museum, Fresno
2010 Elements of Harmony Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2010 Between Gesture and Geometry Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2010 Spontaneous Meditations Anne Loucks Gallery, Chicago
2009 Synapse/Synapses Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey
2009 Recent Encaustic Paintings Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle
2009 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
2007 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)
2017 Brand Spanking Blue Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2017 Work X 5 Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2017 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)
2016 Art on Paper K. Imperial Fine Art, NYC, NY
2016 In the Abstract Anne Loucks Gallery, Glencoe, IL
2016 24th Annual Group Exhibition Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 Between The Spaces, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR (Curator: Elise Wagner)
2015 Art on Paper, K. Imperial Fine Art, NYC, NY
2015 ArtHamptons, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Adaptations, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 eXXpectations, Cornell Museum of Art, DelrayBeach, FL (Curator: Melanie Johanson)
2015 Momentum Transferred, Bruce Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2014 SHIFT: Five Decades of Contemporary California Painting Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey
2014 The Circle Game Tucson Art Museum, Tucson
2014 Outside/In K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco
2013 Facing Forward, Recent Acquisitions: 2000 to Present Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey
2013 Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic Cape 2013 Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA (Curator of Exhibitions: Michael Giaquinto
2013 Elephant in the Room: Contemporary Work in Encaustic Laconia Gallery, Boston (Curators: Linda Cordner and James Hull)
2013 Conference Instructors Exhibition Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown
2012 Winter Exhibition: Recent Acquisitions Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield
2012 LA Art Show Gebert Gallery, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles
2012 Affordable Art Fair Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle Center, Seattle
2011 Action Abstraction Mark Gallery, Englewood, NJ
2011 Rock, Scissors, Paper: Bay Area Collage Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto
2011 Third Anniversary Show Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2011 San Francisco Fine Art Fair Bryant Street Gallery, San Francisco
2010 Vessels Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield (Curator: Aaron Weisenfeld)
2010 Los Angeles Art Fair Los Angeles Convention Center, Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2010 Working with Wax: Contemporary Encaustic Painting in Northern California Santa Rosa 2010 Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA (Curator: Thomas Morphis)
2009 PRINTED Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA (Juror: Archana Horsting)
2009 Diverse Impressions: Bay Area Abstraction Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (Curator: George Rivera)
2009 225º F: Encaustic Encounters Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC (Curator: Brook Bower)
2009 4th Annual Encaustic Invitational Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson (Curator: Elizabeth Meigs)
2008 trans+lucent Gebert Gallery, Venice, CA
2008 New Encaustic Paintings Julie Nester Gallery, Park City
2008 Relative Geometries Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson (Curator: Elizabeth Meigs)
2008 Contemporary Ruin Escondido Museum, Escondido, CA (Curator: Olivia Luther)
2008 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
2007 Encaustic Works 2007 Ball State University, Muncie, IN and Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY (Juror: Joan Snyder)
2007 California Views National Steinbeck Museum, Salinas, CA (Curator: Scott Shields)
2007 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
2006 Invitational Auction (fundraiser) San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
2006 Art (212) The 69th Regiment Armory, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City
2005 Gallery Artists Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe
2005 Works on Paper The 69th Regiment Armory, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York City
2005 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
2000 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
1998 Gallery Artists Solomon Projects, Atlanta
1996 Five Gallery Artists Los Angeles County Museum Rental and Sales Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 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)
1995 National Works on Paper VII Valdosta University, Valdosta, GA (Juror: William Walmsley)
Awards And Honors
2015 Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant
2014 Visual Artist - in - Residence, Music at Menlo Chamber Music Festival & Institute , Atherton, CA
2007 Third - place , California Views: Portals and People , National Steinbeck Museum, Salinas, CA
2005 Residency and s tipend , Bemis Art Center, Omaha, NE , to collaborate on public project in 2005 Slovak Republic with Virginia Folkestad and Lena Leskova
2004 Artist’s Grant , Ministry of Culture, Slovak Republic , Between the Lines: Traveling Full
2004 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
2003 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”
1995 Artist’s Grant (p rintmaking ) , The Community Foundation of Monterey
1995 Artist’s Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center , Johnson, VT
Museums Collections
Bakersfiel d Museum of Art, Bakersfield Crocker Museum, Sacramento Fresno
Museum of Art, Fresno Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ Mont erey Museum of Art, Monterey Museum of Contempora ry Art, Hot Springs, AR
New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz Tucso n Museum of Art, Tucson
Selected Public Collections
Beverly Hills P ublic Library, Beverly Hills
Dallas Arboretum and Botanic al Gardens, Dallas
David & Lucille Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA
Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey New England C onservatory 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
U C Medical Center, San Francisco
University of Wiscon sin Medical Center, Madison
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 El ectric Corporation, Stamford, CT
Hallmark Corporate Headquarters, Kansas City, MO
Intel, In c., 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, Sa
Publications: Catalogs
2016 PAPER: burned, cut, folded and stitched, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Issuu (online)
2014 Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence,Transcendence in Contemp orary Encaustic , Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2014 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 Ada ms, Wi nfield Gallery, Carmel .
2013 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 , Car l 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 Enca ustic . Cincinnati: North Light Books.
2010 Lissa Rankin. Encaustic: A Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax. Watson - Gupthill.
2010 Selected Reviews/Articles
2016 Tracey Adams . “ Cut and Paste” , Professional Artist Magazine , Orlando, FL, December
2016 Kathryn Markel, “ In Conversation with Tracey Adams” , www.markelfinearts.com , September
2016 Elise Morris. The Studio Work blog, March 22
2015 Images used in Catamaran Literary Reader, Spring, Santa Cruz, CA.
2014 John Seed. “Everything in My Life is Interconnected.” Huffington Post , August 11.
2014 Brenda Hope Zappitell. “Tracey Adams: Her Process and Advice.” Professional Artist Magazine , July 30.
2013 “Lumenis: New Paintings by Tracey Adams on View at the Winfield Gallery.” ar tdaily.org, 15 April.
2013 Joanne Mattera. “ Extravagent Light ” (catalog essay). Swept Away: Translucence, 2013 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 Da ily , July 29 .
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 Wat son. “The Symmetry of Asymmetry.” Monterey Herald , February 17 .
2005 Rick Deragon. “Shape Shifter . ” Coast Weekly , January 20 .
2004 “A dvanced States of Concentration. ” Tricycle: The Buddhist Review , Winter .
2003 “Pripomina vlnu i cudnu husenicu . ” Korzar , March 24 .
2003 Miloslava Hriadelova. “Hladam ludi, ktori ma zaujmu . ” Kosicky Vecer, March 26 .
2003 Rick Deragon. “Ancient Voyages . ” Coast Weekly , November 26 .
2002 Rick Deragon . “Her Art, Her Story. ” Coast Weekly , November 7 .
2000 Ann Nichols. “Artstravaganza 20 00.” Chattanooga Free Press, May 21 .
1996 Kathryn M. Nichols. “Monotype Artist’s Plate is Full .” Monterey Herald , February 1, p. 8 .
1996 Interviews/Presentations
2014 “Video Project: The Art of Tracey Adams.” Interview at Music at Menlo, July 30.
2014 “Café Conversations.” Interviewed by Cathy Kimball at Music at Menlo, July 30.
2014 Visual Artist, Music at Menlo Chamber Music Festival & Institute, Atherton, CA, July - August.
2013 “Cannibalism and the Art of Collage.” Presentation at the 7 th International Encausti c Conference, Provincetown, 31 May.
2011 Lynette Haggard . Interview with Tracey Adams, Carmel, CA , July 5 (l ynettehaggard.blogspot.com ) .
2008 “Becoming a Professional Artist.” Presentation at IEA conference, 10 May.
2006 GEOFORM online interview on geom etric form and structure in contemporary abstract art.
2003 Andrea Tomaschova. Vytvarnicka ( television interview ). Vychodoslovenska Galeria, March 25.
2001 Maia Carroll. “Life in the Arts ” ( p rintmaking demonstration/ interview ). K MEX - TV, January 17 .
