On January 28, 2024, I interviewed Alice Adams for the National Academy of Design. Alice Adams is one of eight artists and architects elected and inducted to the National Academy of Design in 2023. In the her exhibition, Sites of Impermanence (February 8 – May 11, 2024), her works White Coat (2017), Siding A (2014), Siding B (2015), and Untitled (2020) demonstrate her consistent and ongoing commitment to experimentation in form, texture, and material, as they relate to both natural landscape and the built environment. As the National Academy’s Senior Curator Sara Reisman elaborates, “Her work encapsulates the softness and vulnerability of the body as it relates to the harder elements of the construction trades.”
In this conversation between longtime friends, Adams touches upon her New York roots and studies, early experiments with weaving tapestries, and her conceptual and material evolution that transgresses mediums.