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Adams, Alice [1930-. USA. Tapestry Designer/Weaver/Sculptor]
Adams, Alice [1930-. USA. Tapestry Designer/Weaver/Sculptor]
Alice Patricia Adams [commonly known as Alice Adams; also as Alive Gordy] was born in New York City on 16 November 1930 and studied at the School of Painting, Columbia University in New York City (B.F.A., 1953); and, with the aid of a French Government Fellowship and a Fulbright Travel Grant, mural and tapestry design at the Ecole National d’Art Décoratif in Aubusson, France (1953-54). She subsequently returned to New York City, and, using two-harness horizontal loom that she brought back from France, began weaving her own tapestries.
Early in her career Adams started deviating from traditional tapestry weaving and by the late 1950s had begun integrating three mediums - tapestry, sculpture and stained glass - in her compositions. Since the late 1960s she has worked primarily as a sculptor. In the 1970s and 1980s she was known for her monumental site-specific public sculptures, often constructed using an eclectic range of materials, such as ‘Shorings’ (1978) at the Artpark in Lewiston, New York; and ‘Mound for Viewing Earth and Sky’ (1981).
Solo exhibitions of Adams’s work have been held at the gallery of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in Purchase, New York (1961); J. Blumenfeld Gallery in New Yonkers, New York (1963); 55 Mercer in New York City (1971, 1972, 1974, 1975); Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (1977); Hal Bromm Gallery in New York City (1979, 1981); Artemesia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois (1980); City Hall Park in New York City (1980); Belmont Park in Dayton, Ohio (1982); Hammarskjöld Plaza Sculpture Garden in New York City (1983-84); Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York in New York City (2000).
Group exhibitions in which Adams has participated include ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ at Fischbach Gallery in New York City (1966); ‘GEDOK American Woman Artist Show’ at Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany (1972); ‘New York Eleven’ at C. W. Post Center, Long Island University in Greenvale, New York (1974); ‘Painting and Sculpture Today 1974’ at Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana (1974); ‘Sitesights’ at Pratt Institute Gallery in Brooklyn, New York City (1980); ‘The House that Art Built’ at California
State University Fullerton in Fullerton, California (1983); ‘An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1984); and ‘Installation: Builtwork’ at Sarah Lawrence College Gallery in Bronxville, New York (1985).
Adams was instructor in sculpture at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York (1961-72); assistant professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York City (1979-80); and an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (1980-85).
Among awards she has received are the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant (1979, 1984-85) and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1981-82).
Examples of Adams’s work are in the permanent collections of the Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands; the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska; and Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina in Greenboro, North Carolina
Early in her career Adams started deviating from traditional tapestry weaving and by the late 1950s had begun integrating three mediums - tapestry, sculpture and stained glass - in her compositions. Since the late 1960s she has worked primarily as a sculptor. In the 1970s and 1980s she was known for her monumental site-specific public sculptures, often constructed using an eclectic range of materials, such as ‘Shorings’ (1978) at the Artpark in Lewiston, New York; and ‘Mound for Viewing Earth and Sky’ (1981).
Solo exhibitions of Adams’s work have been held at the gallery of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in Purchase, New York (1961); J. Blumenfeld Gallery in New Yonkers, New York (1963); 55 Mercer in New York City (1971, 1972, 1974, 1975); Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (1977); Hal Bromm Gallery in New York City (1979, 1981); Artemesia Gallery in Chicago, Illinois (1980); City Hall Park in New York City (1980); Belmont Park in Dayton, Ohio (1982); Hammarskjöld Plaza Sculpture Garden in New York City (1983-84); Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York in New York City (2000).
Group exhibitions in which Adams has participated include ‘Eccentric Abstraction’ at Fischbach Gallery in New York City (1966); ‘GEDOK American Woman Artist Show’ at Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany (1972); ‘New York Eleven’ at C. W. Post Center, Long Island University in Greenvale, New York (1974); ‘Painting and Sculpture Today 1974’ at Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana (1974); ‘Sitesights’ at Pratt Institute Gallery in Brooklyn, New York City (1980); ‘The House that Art Built’ at California
State University Fullerton in Fullerton, California (1983); ‘An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1984); and ‘Installation: Builtwork’ at Sarah Lawrence College Gallery in Bronxville, New York (1985).
Adams was instructor in sculpture at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York (1961-72); assistant professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York City (1979-80); and an instructor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (1980-85).
Among awards she has received are the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant (1979, 1984-85) and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1981-82).
Examples of Adams’s work are in the permanent collections of the Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, The Netherlands; the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska; and Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina in Greenboro, North Carolina
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