David Adams

I was born in Reno, Nevada in 1950. We lived in Richland, Washington from 1951 to 1958, when we moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico. I graduated from High School there and left to attend university in Utah, where I now reside.

I grew up listening to and playing music, exploring the world outside and learning gardening and cooking. I was interested in sports, hiking, fishing and other activities that most kids my age liked. My dad worked as a scientist but he also loved to build furniture. The entire community was made up of scientists and all of the children grew up studying science in school. I naturally developed a life long love for the sciences along with an aptitude for craftsmanship.

I seek to make works that reflect my interests and upbringing through expression of color, line and form. Experiences, memories and the nature of belief interest me and often find their way into the work.

I am fascinated with the myriad of fleeting moments we glimpse as we live our lives. Things passing by or sensed, just out of sight, all to be later recalled as we move along the paths of our lives. A sky changing. A landscape moving through inevitable cycles and changes. These are things I notice and watch. Always a focus of my attention...

Brigham Young University. BFA in ceramics with side studies in printmaking, painting and sculpture. My art instruction was based on traditional media skills and process, with an emphasis on design, voice and craft.

In 1973, I hired on with an art graduate who had just finished his MFA and was starting up a bronze foundry. Together we designed and built several buildings and equipment needed for the processes, as well as many and wide variety of sculpture and later commercial signing projects. I learned all aspects related to metal casting and finishing. I also learned to fabricate metals that developed into a direction for my metal sculptures. I worked there for 13 years. After that time I worked, however briefly, for a sign company where I further developed my skills in fabricating and painting.

In 1983, I met an interior designer who had done extensive business furnishing luxury homes in the Palm Desert area. He wanted art for his projects and I provided it in the form of free standing, wall mounted sculpture and large scale pastel paintings executed on prepared aluminum panels.

To make up these panels I devised a support frame that supported the metal face by attaching to the back side of the panel and them floating ...

Solo exhibits One man show Calvin Charles Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona 2012

One man show A-Gallery Salt Lake City, Utah 2005

One man show Phillips Gallery Salt Lake City, Utah 1997

One man show Springville Art Museum Springville, Utah 1985

Group exhibits Two man show Calvin Charles Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona 2004

Abstract show A-Gallery Salt Lake City, Utah 2003

Two man show Coda Gallery Palm Desert, California 2001

Two man show Coda Gallery Palm Desert, California 2000

Sculpture of Utah Utah State University Logan, Utah 1996

Group shows A-Gallery Salt Lake City, Utah 1995-

Group shows Phillips Gallery Salt Lake City, Utah 1994-1998

Artists of Bull River Bountiful Art Center Bountiful, Utah 1989

Artists of Bull River Kimball Art Center Park City, Utah 1981

Publications Utah Painting And Sculpture Swanson, Olpin and Selfrit 1997