B.J. Adams - Premium Artist

B. J. Adams artwork began with representation, developed into abstraction, and now goes back and forth between the two, sometimes combining elements of both, giving the viewer a surprise, an out of context scale, image and viewpoint. The sewing machine has become brush and pencil; hundreds of colors of thread have become paint for realistic and abstract images set on various backgrounds. The unusual or commonplace materials and techniques used, the focus required by the slow process of this art, and the infinite available subjects, keep her work ever-changing, challenging, and always interesting.

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  Literary Reverie
  free-motion machine embroidery
  on cotton fabric
  34.5 x 24.5 inches

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  Wide Load
  machine embroidery
  on canvas
  35 x 31 inches

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  Traveling from Dawn to Dusk
  free-motion machine embroidery
  on cotton fabrics
  37.5 x 24.5 inches

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  Not Always Green
  free-motion machine embroidery
  on painted canvas
  47 x 26 inches

To connect and vitalize contradictory images, elements of landscape, still-life, botanical drawings, paintings, embroidery, or old textiles may be included. The resultant art may be modular, stretched and framed, or formatted as a banner or quilt.

April '11

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• More artwork by B.J. Adams

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  Teapot
  free-motion machine embroidery triptych
  stretched over wood
  14 x 48 inches

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  Shifting Perspective
  machine embroidery
  stretched over wood
  24 x 13 inches

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  Nautical Narrative
  free-motion machine embroidery
  on denim with heat transfers
  20 x 20 inches

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  Summer Flowers
  Triptych
  free-motion machine embroidery
  on cotton fabrics
  14 x 10 inches each