Solo Exhibitions
|
2010 |
Plane of Persistence, BFA Thesis show, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado |
|
2009 |
Featured artist, Lincoln Center Gallery, Ft. Collins, Colorado |
|
2008 |
Deidre Adams: Passages, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado |
|
2008 |
Spaces and Places: Explorations in Mixed Media Textiles, Art in Public Places Program, |
Selected Group Exhibitions
|
2012 |
Taiwan International Quilt Exhibition 2012, Taichung Municipal City Huludun Cultural Center, Taichung City, Taiwan |
|
2012 |
SAQA Showcase, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
|
2011 |
Quilt National ’11, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio |
|
2010 |
Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, Oceanside, California |
|
2009 |
Sublime Surfaces, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, Colorado |
|
2009 |
Pushing the Surface, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio |
|
2009 |
Mixed Media Fiber Art, The Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts |
|
2008 |
12 Voices, Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, Michigan, and travelling |
|
2008 |
Art Quilt Elements, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pennsylvania |
|
2008 |
Distinctive Directions, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska |
|
2008 |
Threadlines, Missouri State University Art & Design Gallery – |
|
2008 |
Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions, Oceanside, California |
|
2007 |
A Sense of Place, International Quilt Festival, Houston, Texas |
|
2007 |
Hanging by a Thread, Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, Paducah, Kentucky |
|
2007 |
Fiber Directions, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas |
|
2007 |
Fiber R(E)volution, Translations Gallery, Denver, Colorado |
|
2006 |
All Colorado Show, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, Colorado |
|
2006 |
Contemporary Elements: Colorado Artists Redefine Fiber Art, |
|
2006 |
Transformations, Birmingham, England |
|
2006 |
27th Annual Contemporary Crafts, Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona |
|
2005 |
Quilt National ’05, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, Ohio |
|
2005 |
Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas |
|
2005 |
Form not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, New Albany, Indiana |
|
2004 |
Altered Color, Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
|
2004 |
Quilt Visions 2004: Celebrating the Art of the Quilt, Oceanside, California |
|
2004 |
Contemporary Directions in Fiber, Reed Gallery, Denver, Colorado |
|
2004 |
Fine Focus, traveling exhibition, 2004-2005 |
|
2003 |
Elements, Loveland Museum, Loveland, Colorado; and Exhibits USA traveling show, 2005-2009 |
|
2003 |
Western Material: Front Range Contemporary Quilters, Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art, Denver, Colorado |
|
2001 |
State of the Craft: Contemporary Interpretations of Tradition, Museum of Early Trades and Crafts, Madison, New Jersey |
Commissions
|
2011 |
Anythink Bennett, Bennett, Colorado: Horizon XVIII: Plainsong |
|
2007 |
Louisville Library, Louisville, Colorado: Between the Lines |
|
2007 |
Lone Tree Library, Lone Tree, Colorado: Chronicles I, Chronicles II, Chronicles IV, Chronicles V, Chronicles VI, Chronicles VII |
Installations & Collections
Metropolitan State College of Denver (Colo.) Hospitality Learning Center: Reliably Uncertain & Mining Chaos
Terrance Carroll, Greenberg Traurig, former Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives: All the Answers
Ritz Carlton Highlands, Lake Tahoe: Iterations #2: Aquamarine, Horizon IV, Horizon XI
EnCana Corp., Denver, Colorado: Iterations #1
Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Stapleton, Highlands Ranch, Franklin, and Aurora locations:
Colorways I, II, & III; IV; Common Boundaries I & II; Reverie I, IV ; V
Kaiser Permanente Regional Headquarters, Atlanta, Georgia: Composition III
Quilts, Inc., Houston, Texas: Horizon VIII, Horizon IX ; Horizon X
PEI, Boulder, Colorado: Cerescape No. 3
University of Nebraska, International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas: Passages V
Bibliography
|
2011 |
Patchwork Professional – Das Magazin für Fortgeschrittene & Profis, “Abstrakte Mixed Media Kunst von Deidre Adams,” Jan. 2011 |
|
2010 |
Quilt Visions 2010: No Boundaries, published by Visions Publications |
|
2010 |
1000 Artisan Textiles by Sandra Salamony & Gina M. Brown, published by Quayside Publishing |
|
2010 |
500 Art Quilts, juried by Karey Patterson Bresenhan, published by Lark Books |
|
2009 |
Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory, ed. Maeve Tynan, Maria Beville and Marita Ryan; published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Passages V – cover image |
|
2009 |
Quilting Art by Spike Gillespie, published by Voyageur Press |
|
2009 |
Machine Quilting Unlimited, Vol. XIV, No. 6, “In the Art Studio with Deidre Adams,” |
|
2009 |
SAQA Journal v.19, no. 4, Fall 2009, “Featured Artist: Jo Fitsell” (author) |
|
2008 |
Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions, published by Visions Publications |
|
2008 |
12 Voices: An in-depth look at 12 artists working in the quilt medium, published by Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. |
|
2007 |
SAQA Journal v.17, no.4, Fall 2007, “Living up to the Digital Deal” (author) |
|
2006 |
Quilting Arts Magazine, issue 24, Winter 2006, profiled artist |
|
2006 |
Uncommon Threads, DIY Network, episodes DUCT-155 “Scratching the Surface” and DUCT-122 “Changing the Face of Quilts” |
|
2005 |
Quilt National 2005: The Best in Contemporary Quilts, published by Lark Books |
|
2004 |
Quilt Visions 2004, published by Visions Publications |
|
2002 |
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, Issue #345 (v.33, No.7), “The Meetin’ Place” feature article, September 2002 |
Education
|
2010 |
BFA, emphasis in painting, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado |
|
1997 |
AS, Graphic Design, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, Colorado |
|
1990 |
BS, Computer Information Systems & Management Science, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado |