« Tracey Adams Art

Artist Statement:

I love process, especially when it comes to working on collages, monotypes or paintings. I've been drawing, painting and printmaking for over 30 years, working in different media, yet a common thread flows between the marks and gestures of all my finished pieces. My influences are geometry with respect to structures like music and science (nature). I find fascinating how seamless this visual history consistently appears despite how many years pass.

Things that inspire me are the central coast of California where I live with its tangles of kelp and distressed tree limbs plus a lifelong interest and study of music. My current focus and body of work is collage using fragments of discarded etchings, encaustic monotypes, drawings. Sometimes the collages are mounted on panel with additional painted imagery, sometimes they are mounted on paper. The result is never ending hours of challenge, problem solving and fun as I attempt to make visual sense of puzzle-like fragments, each with a different configuration yet sharing many elements with pieces that have gone before them.