Palm Desert, CA 92260          

425.457.2485     BAdams7554@aol.com   www.BethAdamsArtworks.com

                           www.HanniganAdamsJewelers.com

Born: 1946, Chicago, Illinois

 

 

EDUCATION

L'Université de Bordeaux, France (scholarship, 2ème degré), 1967

University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A.. 1968

New York University, New York, teaching degree, 1969

Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, 1976-77

University of Saskatchewan, Emma Lake Painter's Seminar, 1976

Art Student's League, New York, 1980

San Francisco Art Institute, 1980

San Francisco State University, M.A. in Art, 1985 (painting, art history)

 

EXHIBITIONS

1975          Artists' at Work, Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada

1977          Ontario College of Arts, solo painting exhibition, Toronto, Canada

1977          City of Vancouver Artist's Gallery, solo painting exhibition, Vancouver, Canada

1978          Capilano College, group exhibition, North Vancouver, Canada

1978          Queen Elizabeth Theatre, solo painting exhibition, Vancouver, Canada

1978          University of British Columbia, group exhibition, Vancouver, Canada

1978          City of Vancouver's Artist Gallery, solo painting exhibition, Vancouver, Canada

1979          City of San Francisco Art's Commission, juried painting invitational, group exhibition, San Francisco, California

1981          San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Auction, San Francisco, California

1985          "Art From the Heart," group painting invitational, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

1985          Lynn McAllister Gallery, group painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1986          "Art From the Heart," group painting invitational, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

1986          Bellevue Community College, Annual Faculty Art Exhibition, Bellevue, Washington

1986          Kirkland Creative Arts Center, group painting exhibition, Kirkland, Washington

1986          40th Annual Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, juried painting exhibition, Bellevue, Washington 

1986          Bozeman Arts Club, solo painting exhibition, Bozeman, Montana

1986          Christmas Group Show, Steven Keely Gallery, Seattle, Washington

1987          Steven Keely Gallery, one-woman painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1987          Bellevue Art Museum, invitational auction, Bellevue, Washington

1988          Linda Hodges Gallery, group painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1988          "Against War," group exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1989          Digital Corporation, 3-month, one-woman painting exhibition, Bellevue, Washington

1990          City Hall, Kirkland, Washington, painting installation

1990          Lakeshore Gallery, Painting exhibition, Kirkland, Washington

1990          Kirkland Arts Center, Painting exhibition, Kirkland, Washington

1990          Seattle Pacific University, painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1990          "Artquake," juried exhibition by N.Y. critic Peter Plagens, (Time magazine) Portland, Oregon

1991          University of Washington, Hub, solo painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1991          University of Washington, Parrington Hall, solo painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1991 - 98,  A.G. Edwards, Carillon Point, one-woman painting installation, Kirkland, Washington

1991          Skinner Corporation, Kirkland, Washington, painting exhibition

1992  - 93     Friesen Gallery, group exhibition, Seattle, Washington

1993  - 94     Seattle Art Museum, "Estate of the Arts" Seattle, Washington

1993  - 94     Kirkland Arts Center, Auction, Kirkland, Washington

1994 - 97   Seattle Art Museum, non-juried slide presentation, Seattle, Washington

1995 - 99   Poncho, Auction, Seattle, Washington

1995 - 99   Artists' Trust Auction, Seattle, Washington

1995 - 99   Zeena's on Madison, Installation, Paintings, Seattle, Washington & Hopscotch, 15th Avenue, Seattle, Washington

1996          Whatcom County Museum, Juried International Competition, painting exhibition,  Bellingham, Washington

1996 - 97   Pratt Invitational Auction, Seattle, Washington

1997         Lead Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington , group painting exhibition

1998         Absolut Vodka, Pink Umbrellas, Seattle Art Museum

1997 - 1999         NWAF  Invitational Exhibition, Seattle Center Art Pavilion

1999          Denver Symphony Auction and Designer Home, Denver, Colorado

2000         Artist's Trust Annual Invitational Auction, Seattle Center Art Pavilion, Seattle, Washington

2000         NWAF Invitational Auction, Woodland Parks Zoo, Seattle, Washington

2000         Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Invitational Auction, "Garden of Eden", Seattle, Washington

2000         PONCHO, Invitational Art Exhibition, "Palazzo Poncho", Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, Washington

2000         Palm Springs Desert Museum 31st Annual Juried Exhibtion, Palm Springs, California

2001         Bank of America Gallery, group exhibition, Artist's Trust, Seattle, Washington

2001         NW Aids Foundation, Auction, Seattle Wa

2001         Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Wa

2002-03   The Desert Collection, Group Installation, Palm Desert, CA

2003        Artist's Trust, Group Show and Auction, Seattle, Washington

2003        SAKS Fifth Avenue, Art Exhibition and Auction, Palm Desert, CA

2003        Solo Exhibition, Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, CA

2003-04  Berozkina Gallery, Group Exhibition, Kirkland, Washington

2004       SAKS Fifth Avenue, Art Exhibition and Auction, Palm Desert, CA

2004       Desert Art Collection, Group Exhibition, Palm Desert, CA

2004       Berozkina Gallery, Group Exhibition, Kirkland, WA

2005       Artist's Trust, Seattle, Washington

2005       Pacific Centre, Seattle, Washington

2005       Berozkina Gallery, group exhibition, Kirkland, Washington

2005       Desert Art Collection, solo painting exhibition, Palm Desert, California

2005       Henry Art Gallery "Bashville" Invitational Auction, Seattle, Wa

2006       Desert Art Collection, solo painting exhibition, Palm Desert, California

2006       Gallery I/M/A, group painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

2006       Desert Art Collection, Solo painting exhibition, Palm Desert, California

2007       Artist's Trust, Auction Invitational, Seattle, Washington

2007       Desert Art Collection/Firecliff Restaurant, Palm Desert, California

2007-08  Gallery I/M/A, painting exhibition, Seattle, Washington

2009-13  Firecliff Restaurant, solo painting installation,  Palm Desert, CA

2010       Gallery IMA, Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA

2011       Gallery IMA, Two-person Painting Exhibition, Seattle, WA

2011       Pilchuck Invitational Auction, Seattle WA

2011-13  Gallery IMA, Group Exhibitions, Seattle, WA

2012       Artist's Trust, Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA

2013       Arte Internazionale, group exhibition, painting, Matera, Italy

2013       Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City, juried group painting

               exhibition

2014       Kirkland Arts Center, juried exhibition (by Michael Monroe, former

               director Bellevue Art Museum), painting, Kirkland, Washington

2014       Arte Internazionale, group painting exhibit, Matera, Italy

2014       20x20 Gallery, Switzerland, group invitational, painting

2014       Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA, group exhibition

2015-16  Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA, group exhibition

2016        Takane Luxe, New York, group exhibitions in Japan.

2016        Palm Springs Museum of Art, juried exhibition Arts Council, Palm Springs, California.

2017        The Alice, “Everyone’s In”  Seattle WA

2017        University of California/Riverside/Palm Desert, Group Painting Exhibition

2017         Palm Springs Art Museum, juried painting exhibition, Peggy Vermeer Award for painting.

2018         Ryan James Fine Arts, group painting exhibition, Kirkland, WA

2018         Butler Institute of American Art, Juried Exhibition, Youngstown, Ohio.

2018        Kirkland Arts Center, juried auction, “Through the Looking Glass”,

                W Hotel, Bellevue, WA

2019        Bellevue Art Museum,  Bellevue, WA, Annual Auction Invitational

2019        Museum of Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, “New Land, Prayer Flag”, group exhibition.

2019-2020  Strother Dermatology, w/Ryan James Fine Arts, solo painting installation.

2020        Kirkland Arts Center, “Reflections” group exhibition, painting

2020         Ryan James Fine Arts Gallery, Kirkland, WA, solo painting exhibition, “Energies”

2021        Palm Springs Artist Council, Juried/Digital Exhibition, “Reflections”

2022,        Holiday Art Sale,  Galen Center, Artist’s Council,  Palm Desert, CA

 

TEACHING

Bellevue Community College, painting instructor, 1985-1986

Kirkland Arts Center, painting, drawing, ceramics instructor, 1986-1990

Seattle Pacific University, drawing and art history instructor, 1986-1990

University of Washington, Experimental College, art instructor, 1986-1998

Seattle Art Museum, Drawing Seminar, 1995 - 1996

 

Television:  CBS2 "Eye on the Desert" Interview Nov 19,2003

 

Publications

1990 - 95   Preview Magazine

1996          Kirkland Courier Review

1997          Seattle PI, "Best Bets", Art/Gallery Section

1999          Colorado Homes, Symphony Designer Homes

2003          Palm Springs Life, Palm Desert, CA

2004          Kirkland Courier Review

2019          425 Magazine

Collections

      Carlton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

      Absolut Vodka, New York, New York

      Robert Gerding, Portland, Oregon

      Bill Ballantine, Kirkland, Washington

      Overlake Hospital, Bellevue, WA

 

About the Artist: Beth Adams

An active artist and jewelry designer, Beth Adams' abstract paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows at galleries in the United States and Canada, and at the "Artquake" exhibition juried by New York's Newsweek art critic, Peter Plagens. Beth's work has also been selected to appear in many invitational events including the San Francisco Art commission's invitational juried exhibition and the Bellevue Art Museum's invitational auction. In addition to her work as an exhibiting artist Beth has taught drawing, painting and art history at Seattle Pacific University and at the University of Washington Experimental College. The former Executive Director of the Kirkland Arts Center, Beth is a partner at Hannigan/Adams Goldsmiths, Carillon Point, Kirkland, Washington. Her jewelry has been shown at Saks Fifth Avenue, Union Square, San Francisco and Naples, Florida. Her work was shown at Saks Fifth Avenue fine jewelry, Palm Desert, The Gardens at El Paseo for 15 years.  She was chosen in 1996 as one of 12 U.S. designers at the International Jewelry Exhibition, Jacob Javits Center, New York City. Ms. Adams' painting was exhibited in the International Juried Competition, at Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington, July - October 1996.  Her "Pink Umbrella" painted for Absolut Vodka and shown at the Seattle Art Museum, toured the United States and is included in the Absolut Vodka permanent collection in New York City.  She was included in the 31st Annual Juried Exhibition at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, March -April 2000; and a solo painting exhibition at the Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, California, in 2004-05; as well as the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Invitational, "Bashville" Auction, 2005.

In 2013, she was one of 20 artists chosen to exhibit 3 paintings in

Matera, Italy, at the Arte Internazionale exhibition, at the main City Hall, Plaza Annuncianata.  She was also juried into a group exhibition of paintings at the Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City, December 2013; and in 2014, juried into the group painting exhibition at the Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA by Michael Monroe, former Director Bellevue Arts Museum.

Her painting “Prayer Flag 3: Haida-Nootka”  is included in the 2016 juried Arts Council Exhibition at the Palm Springs Museum of Art, California; and in 2017, her painting “Coachella Song” was juried into Palm Springs Art Museum Council Exhibition at University of California Riverside/Palm Desert.  Adams’ painting, “Waterfall/Window” c. 2017, was shown at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Oct-Dec 2017, winning the Peggy Vermeer Award for painting.  Her painting “Walking” was included in the 2018 Juried Exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; juror: NYC painter and sculptor, Peter Reginato.  In 2019, her painting was included in “New Land, Prayer Flag” group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bedminster, N.J. Most recently, August 2020, 15 of Adams’ paintings from 1976-2020 were shown in a solo exhibition at Ryan James Fine Arts, Kirkland, Washington.