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LISA ADAMS
P.O. Box 2456
Venice, CA 90294
t/f 310 390 9292
M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
B.A., Scripps College, Claremont, CA
University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
RECENT PAINTINGS, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA
MNEMONICS, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
SMALL WORKS, 12 x 12 Gallery, Taos, NM
RECENT PAINTINGS, College of Southern Nevada,North Las Vegas, NV
RECENT PAINTINGS, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
TETHER, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
PHYSICAL CURIOSITIES, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
PERSONAL MARKS, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
SCHEMA, Daniel Maher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
DIARIES, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
LISA ADAMS, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
EVIDENCE, L.A. Nicola, Los Angeles, CA
THE BOOK OF LIES, Gallery Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA
TABLE ART, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
THE BIG WAVE, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SMOGGY ABSTRACTION: RECENT LOS ANGELES PAINTING, Haggerty Museum, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI
DOWNTOWN COMES UPTOWN, Gallery 258, Beverly Hills, CA
DIVERSITY OF CONTEMPORARY PAINTING, AndrewShire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SMALL QUIRKY ABSTRACTIONS, Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA
GREEN, Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
HANGING, Griffin Linton Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
SIX ROADS TO ABSTRACTION, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
MUSES, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
WORKS ON PAPER, Farid Chaib Contemporary Art, Venice, CA
FLOWERS, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
GET BACK, Kohn/Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BIG LITTLES, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(AB STRACK'SHUN), William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
LISA ADAMS/ROD BAER: ALEATORIC CIRCUMSTANCES, Pierce College, Woodland Hills,
CA
DRESSED TO THE NINES, Daniel Maher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
THE WORLD OF CUPS, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
BALLS, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
OTHERS AMONG OTHERS, Wierzbowski Gallery, Houston, TX
INTIMATE IMAGES II, Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA
ARTIST AS VISIONARY, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
LEE ARTHUR STUDIO, New York, NY
UNCOOPERATIVE ABSTRACTION, Project Box, Los Angeles, CA
VISUAL VOICES/PERSONAL SYMBOLS, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
BETWEEN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING, Gallery IV, Los Angeles, CA
ALMOST MONOCHROME PAINTINGS, Studio Raid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
THE ELEGANT, THE IRREVERENT AND THE OBSESSIVE: DRAWING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA and Dorothy Goldeen
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SPATIAL RELATIONS, Lanning Gallery, Houston, TX
INTIMATE IMAGES I, Los Angeles Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
ASPECTS OF PAINTING IN LOS ANGELES, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa
Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
ART CENTRAL, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles,
CA
1991 OPEN, Angels Gate Cultural Center Gallery, San Pedro, CA
PACIFIC PRINTS, Amfac Plaza Gallery, Honolulu, HI and East Hawaii Cultural
Center, Hilo, HI
SMALL PAINTINGS, Boise State University Gallery, Boise, ID
HEAL THE BAY SURFBOARD INVITATIONAL, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
PRINTMAKERS '90, Artspace Gallery, North Las Vegas, NV
PAINTERS, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AN EASTERNER'S EYE ON THE WEST, THE COLLECTION OF RYO TSUKIOKA, Daniel Maher
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
BEHIND THE PAINTINGS: A STUDY OF LISA ADAMS, collaboration with Rod Baer,
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SIX ARTISTS, LJ Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
LOS ANGELES ORGANIC ABSTRACTION, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
STAFF AND FACULTY COLLECT, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
SOHO CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, New York, NY
EAST VILLAGE ARTISTS, Dramatas Personae Gallery, New York, NY
TO THE ASTONISHING HORIZONS, LAVA, '84, Los Angeles, CA
CIRRUS CELEBRATES LOS ANGELES ART, Cirrus Gallery, CA
ART FORGERIES, Public Image, New York, NY
YOUNG NEW YORK LANDSCAPE ARTISTS, Cirrus Gallery, CA
RENTAL DIVISION, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
SO CAL ACADEMIA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
BINGE WORK, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
CLAREMONT AT IRVINE, University of California, Irvine, CA
THE BOOK OF LIES, (cover design) artist book of multiples produced by Eugenia Butler
ARTBREAKING, (featured guest) hosted by Charlie Finch, WBAI radio, New York, NY
ART CAR, BMW of North America, ART/LA 93
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF (featured painting), written and directed
by Edward Albee, James Dolittle Theater,
Los Angeles, CA
Patchett, Tom (ed.); MOST ART SUCKS, FIVE YEARS OF COAGULA. Los Angeles: Smart Art Press/D.A.P.
Grandovec, Helena; "Prispldoba Je Univerzalni Jezik", VERCER,
June 1
Scarborough, James; "Smoggy Abstraction", exhibition catalogue
essay, August-October
Wilson, William; "Art Reviews", LOS ANGELES TIMES, November
25
Curtis, Cathy; "Two Roads Worth Taking to Abstract New Worlds",
LOS ANGELES TIMES, November 3
Brown, Betty; "Muses", Armory Center for the Arts, exhibition
catalogue essay, November
Kuromizu, Nobuko; "Architects & Artists in Southern California",
MODERN LIVING, September
O'Brian-Fratto, Draza; "Lisa Adams: In the Realm of the Feminine",
LAS VEGAS WEEKLY, March 22
Bidrawn, Les; "Objects in Motion", EUROPEAN CAR MAGAZINE, April
Becker, Shizuyo; "From Abroad", BIJUTSU TECHO, March
Cutajar, Mario; "The Anxiety of Modern Painting", ARTWEEK, October
20, Vol. 25, No. 20
DiMichele, David; "Recent Paintings at William Turner Gallery, COAGULA
ART JOURNAL, November
Gleason, Mat; "When Painting Goes Beyond Dogma" (cover story),
COAGULA ART JOURNAL, November
Gyulai, Monica; "The Fear Factor", LOS ANGELES TIMES, January
9
Kapitanoff, Nancy; "A Space of Their Own", LOS ANGELES TIMES,
October 14
Scarborough, James; "A Survey of ART/LA94", ARTWEEK, January
Scarborough, James; "Lisa Adams, Lari Pittman", ART PRESS, November
Webb, Michael; "Box Tops", LOS ANGELES TIMES SUNDAY MAGAZINE,
November 22
Gleason, Mat; " COAGULA ART JOURNAL, Autumn
Easley, Ben; "Faith in Abstraction Colors Almost Monochrome
", COAGULA ART JOURNAL, Autumn
DiMichele, David; "Hand, Eye and Brain", ARTWEEK, July 8, Vol.
24, No. 13
Sauls, Frederick; ARTSCENE, June, Vol. 12, No. 10
Beller, Miles; "United Opposites", ARTWEEK, June
Pagel, David; "Art Reviews", LOS ANGELES TIMES, June 10
Darling, Michael W; THE INDEPENDENT, Santa Barbara, March 18
Kapitanoff, Nancy; "People Seen", L.A. STYLE, April
Lasarow, Bill; ARTSCENE, February, Vol. 11, No. 6
ART NOW Gallery Guide, Museum News, December (reproduction)
Belloli, Jay; "Exhibition Yearbook 1991/92", The Armory Center
for the Arts
Korten, Noel: "LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition", exhibition catalogue
essay, December
DiMichele, David; "Back To Abstraction", ARTWEEK, June
DiMichele, David; "Conceptualiam's Ironic Legacy", VISIONS MAGAZINE
Lizza, Richard William; "New L.A. Abstraction", exhibition catalogue
essay, April
Kapitanoff, Nancy; "LOS ANGELES TIMES CALENDAR, May
Robins, Cynthia; "Devilish Advocate", SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER,
IMAGE MAGAZINE, May
Wolfe, Wynn; VISIONS MAGAZINE, Autum
Webb, Michael; ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, April
Wilson, William; LOS ANGELES TIMES
Krantz, Les; CALIFORNIA ART REVIEW
Geer, Suvan; LOS ANGELES TIMES
Frank, Peter; "Pick of the Week", L.A. WEEKLY, December
Kazanjian, Dodie; "Hollywood Herald", HOUSE AND GARDEN, October
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Pont Aven, France
Instructor of the Year, UCLA Extension
FULBRIGHT SENIOR SCHOLAR AWARD
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS EXCANGE TO JAPAN, finalist
BRODY ARTS FUND FELLOWSHIP
FULBRIGHT SENIOR SCHOLAR, finalist
ANNE AYRES, Los Angeles, CA CLAUDETTE LUSSIER, Los Angeles, CA
CHARELES BRICENO, Alhambra, CA TOM MAHEW, Los Angeles, CA
BRUCE CHURCHILL, Los Angeles, CA PATTI MARCUS, Los Angeles, CA
LADDIE JOHN DILL, Venice, CA DR. NANCY MOSS, Los Angeles, CA
BETTY AND BRACK DUKER, Pasadena, CA HIROSHI MURATA, Taos, NM
HELEN EPSTEIN, Los Angeles, CA LESLIE PAM AND ANN CHRISTIE, Los Angeles,
CA
BRUCE EVANS, Los Angeles, CA ROBERT PARKER, Los Angeles, CA
JOHN AND LYN FISCHBACH, New Orleans, LA BRIAN POLLACK, Los Angeles, CA
JUDITH FRIEDMAN, Playa Del Rey, CA JOAN QUINN, Beverly Hills, CA
JAMES GERHARD, San Diego, CA REN RIDOLFI, Pacific Palisades, CA
RAY GIDDEON, Los Angeles, CA BARRY AND KAREN SCHNEIDER, Los Angeles, CA
HERBERT GLASER, Beverly Hills, CA HARRIET SHADUR, Tarzana, CA
JONI AND MONTE GORDON, Los Angeles, CA MEL AND GAE SHULMAN, San Francisco,
CA
HENRY HOPKINS, Los Angeles, CA SALLY SIRKIN LEWIS, Los Angeles, CA
LESLIE HOLZER, Tesuque, NM GEORGE AND GRETEL STEPHENS, Pasadena, CA
PATRICIA HONKAWA, Los Angeles, CA MELANIE SUGGS, Washington, DC
KWACK HOON, Pacific Palisades, CA RYO TSUkIOKA, Los Angeles, CA
CRAIG KAUFFMAN, Los Angeles, CA PAM AND MEL WEINER, Los Angeles, CA
METKA KRASOVEC, Ljubljana, Slovenia CARL WYANT, Los Angeles, CA
ANNE LASSELL, Pasadena, CA DEBBIE AND WES YOUNGQUIST, Los Angeles, CA
ED LEFFINGWELL, New York, NY GARY KARRASS, Santa Monica, CA
RAY LIOTTA, Encino, CA
COMING AND GOING, Edward Giardina Contmeporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
EUROPEAN LIGHT & SPACE, Academy of Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
SENIOR JUROR, Los Angeles National Juried Art Exhibition, Los Angeles,
CA
JUROR, Long Beach Arts Association, Long Beach, CA
OFF BEATS, National Council for Jewish Women, NCJW Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
ECCENTRIC ABSTRACTION, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
DEATH BY CHOCOLATE, The Art Store Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA
RELENTLESS CURIOSITY, Sam Francis Gallery at the Crossroads School for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA
