Daniel Adams: printmaker– Artist's Biography/Artist Statement
Everything I do is a sacred task. I've been created in God's image, therefore I am creative. It is my goal to glorify God through all of my artwork, whether specifically religious in nature or not. It is a gift from God. I try to do my best.
Daniel Adams is the chair of the Department of Art and Design at Harding University, where he has taught since 1991. He obtained his Masters of Fine Arts terminal degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1987. He teaches printmaking, graphic design, and a variety of art history and visual aesthetic courses. His work is widely exhibited and collected.
As an artist, Adams has used printmaking, and woodcut in particular as a natural ways of expressing. He is particularly fascinated with the way architecture speaks of human presence even with the absence of human figures in the works. The natural world and his travels across the United States and around the world with his wife, Meagan, also inform much of his work.
The visual arts are a dialog. With any art form, there is a dialog between the artist and the medium. Each must respond to the desires and demands of the other–that is what makes the arts wonderfully unpredictable and very much like human culture– Adams must respond to the natural resistance that the gouges and knives encounter with the grain of the wood, the free-flowing application of pigment by brush and the juxtaposition of preexisting images as visual words. Mixing different media as building blocks of visual syntax is sometimes necessary to make a coherent visual statement. We communicate though images and the recombination of recurring images develops into a language and narrative about the world. You can see some of his work at www.danieladamsink.com.
Everything I do is a sacred task. I've been created in God's image, therefore I am creative. It is my goal to glorify God through all of my artwork, whether specifically religious in nature or not. It is a gift from God. I try to do my best.
Daniel Adams is the chair of the Department of Art and Design at Harding University, where he has taught since 1991. He obtained his Masters of Fine Arts terminal degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1987. He teaches printmaking, graphic design, and a variety of art history and visual aesthetic courses. His work is widely exhibited and collected.
As an artist, Adams has used printmaking, and woodcut in particular as a natural ways of expressing. He is particularly fascinated with the way architecture speaks of human presence even with the absence of human figures in the works. The natural world and his travels across the United States and around the world with his wife, Meagan, also inform much of his work.
The visual arts are a dialog. With any art form, there is a dialog between the artist and the medium. Each must respond to the desires and demands of the other–that is what makes the arts wonderfully unpredictable and very much like human culture– Adams must respond to the natural resistance that the gouges and knives encounter with the grain of the wood, the free-flowing application of pigment by brush and the juxtaposition of preexisting images as visual words. Mixing different media as building blocks of visual syntax is sometimes necessary to make a coherent visual statement. We communicate though images and the recombination of recurring images develops into a language and narrative about the world. You can see some of his work at www.danieladamsink.com.
