Pat Adams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pat Adams

painter

Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1928

Place of Birth: Stockton, California, United States

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Pat Adams NA (born July 8, 1928) is an American modernist painter and mixed-media artist.
She was born in Stockton, California.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949, after which she took courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts, University of the Pacific and the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1950 she moved to New York City and enrolled in the art program at the Brooklyn Museum where she studied under Max Beckmann, John Ferren and Reuben Tam.
In 1956 she won a Fulbright Scholarship to study in France, where she traveled with her husband, Vincent Longo, who is also a painter and printmaker.
Adams taught at Bennington College from 1964 to 1993, and was appointed Visiting Professor of Art to Yale University's Master of Fine Arts program from 1990 to 1994.
In 1995 she won the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Her style, a mixture of modernism and abstraction, is described by Adams as "yield[ing] more to qualities than ideas, more to matter than its naming".
She continues, "...I sense a release of potentiality, a release of more than we know....I conclude that of whatever else the artist's effort may consist, it abounds in restless projective extension; innately it bounds toward the vision of an anticipatory not-as-yet."