Alice Adams

Alice Adams (b. November 16, 1930, New York) is an American artist best known for her site-specific land art installations and public projects she made in the 80s and 90s for airports, university campuses, and transit systems in the United States. Her early work in tapestry and woven forms in the 1950s was important in the American fiber art movement. In the 60s, Adams moved on to working as a sculptor in New York City, combining her prior training as a weaver with her new interest in architectural forms. Her sculptures during this period explored elements of the wall, the corner, the column, and the vault. Throughout her practice, Adams revisited flexible materials, specifically through her use of cast latex and formed aluminum wire. She saw her work as a means of drawing people into spaces that are initially familiar but that later appear new. She used recognizable building materials like wood lath, covering or partially covering frameworks to create free-standing partitions, columns, and vaults. Her practice and contributions to "anti-form" abstraction from this era saw little recognition until just recently.

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