Mark Adams

Biography

Born in Fort Plains, N.Y., Mark Adams went on to attended Syracuse University, but left before graduation to study abstract art in New York with prominent Abstract Expressionist Hans Hoffman. Although he studied painting, Adams began his early career as a tapestry and stained-glass designer where he designed the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco's largest synagogue, in Presidio Heights. He also did the stained glass for Grace Episcopal Cathedral on Nob Hill. His tapestry works can be found locally at the de Young Museum and at San Francisco International Airport. Later in life he turned away from tapestry and stained glass as his art came to its fullest expression and he began turned to using watercolors as his primary medium. Adams' watercolor style often involved taking everyday objects--a tie, a bowl of jello--and portraying them with new meaning through a series of vivid, delicate, and translucent color washes.

Gallery Exhibitions

Artist Publications

Selected Works

Mark Adams Two Pink Camellias watercolor, graphite on paper 18 x 24 inches

Mark Adams Pink Rose in Glass watercolor, graphite on paper 18 x 24 inches

Mark Adams Farm Buildings, 1985 watercolor on paper 17 1/2 x 23 3/8 inches

Mark Adams Two Persimmons, 1977 watercolor on paper 11 x 15 inches

Mark Adams Folded Flag, 1994 18 color lithograph 29 3/4 x 34 1/4 inches ed. 59/100

Mark Adams Hydrangea In Jar, 1980 watercolor on paper 17 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches

Mark Adams Orange Hibiscus, 1996 watercolor 27 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches

Mark Adams Rowboat in Water watercolor on paper 22 1/2 x 30 inches