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Tracey Adams trained concurrently as a conductor and painter. Because of her musical training, she uses visual intervals and patterns in her work which she approaches with the physicality of musical performance and often explores this during a particular series. Adam's lifelong interests in music, science, art, and mathematics are constantly woven and re-woven into her paintings and works on paper. Her works are inspired by intersections drawn between contradictory ideas, like the organic and geometric. In this, Adams attempts to create environments that she strives to find within herself which represent the internal worlds she externalizes and shares with her viewers.
A 2016 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, Adams has been an exhibiting artist for over 35 years. She has participated in over 175 solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Monterey Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History. Adams's paintings are also included in the permanent collections of the Bakersfield Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, New Jersey, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Fresno Art Museum, the Tucson Art Museum and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.