Erica H. Adams is a post-media artist who teaches, writes and curates.
Recent abstract paintings respond to climate change and were exhibited in Formal Aspects: Visual Dialogue in Structure (2015) at Cape Cod Museum of Art (2015).
Interviewed in Oudeis (2015) about role of technology in art, Adams’ work has used advanced technologies since the invention of digital media in 1983, including Nikon FE2, Polaroid Large Format camera and virtual reality.
Part of the Pictures Generation, Adams was in “Acceptable Entertainment” (1988-98) a traveling exhibit circulated in U.S. and Canada by Independent Curators International (NY). Photographs by 26 artists about imagery institution of television.
Faculty: SMFA at Tufts University (1988-2015), Adams taught Painting, Glass and a course Venice, Italy (1997-2002). Adams won 4 faculty grants. She’s exhibited in U.S. and Canada, Adams’ work is in private and museum collections.
Writer: Contributing Editor for Glass Is More! (2013 -) an on-line magazine based in the Netherlands, Adams writes about the arts, glass, design and architecture. Contributing Editor for print quarterlies Fjoezzz (2007 -2013) and This Side Up! (1998-2007), Adams wrote columns, respectively: Door Het Glas/Through Glass and Thinking Through Glass.
Co-curator of traveling exhibition Respeto/Respect (2013) about Maya religious diversity and coexistence after decades of strife in Chiapas, México: photographs and trilingual text are by 7 Maya women from different ethnic and religious groups in Chiapas. Co-Curated with Carlota Duarte, founder-director of the Chiapas Photography Project, in México. The inaugural exhibit was at Yale University Institute of Sacred Music (CT).