A collection of paintings and works on paper I created during a year spent at North Park Village Nature Center and earlier. This space is a truly unique wildlife sanctuary included in the Chicago Park District. It is a place I’ve visited regularly over the last 25 years and it speaks to my essence. It's one of the places in the world where I sense and connect with the ephemeral nature of life. As it is a sanctuary for animals and botanical life I see it as a sanctuary for human beings too.
Process:I work in nature and from nature. I’m an observational artist at heart. I also work from memory and this is one reason I like to revisit a place/space many times. It becomes embedded in my visual and visceral memory. The shapes, the light, compositions, color and emotions along with similarities I find between different, seemingly unrelated spaces. I’m not a direct recorder of what I see. I’m a recorder of what I sense in what I see. And seeing then becomes a process of selection.
CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY : AUSTIN-IRVING branch “Seeing Nature: Residency Harvested” April-May 2023
Colette Wright Adams curated art works, 2022-2023, as Resident Artist at North Park Village Nature Center
Art workshops by Resident Artist Colette Wright Adams, MFA NORTH PARK VILLAGE NATURE CENTER 5801 N Pulaski Chicago, IL
SATURDAY JANUARY 21ST 10-11:30 am Visionf & Intuitive Collage
FRIDAY fEBRUARY 17TH 6-7:30 pm Meditation & The World of Love: drawing & folded book-making
“
The Nature of seeing” Solo Exhibition North Shore Art League
January 12th - February 12th 2023 Opening Reception Sunday January 15th 2-4pm Informal artist’s talk at 3pm
Oct. 7 - January 22,2023
ROCKFORDARTMUSEUM
Inside Riverfront Museum Park, 711 N. Main Street
Rockford, IL 61103
(815) 968-2787 | www.rockfordartmuseum.org
3 Pieces from “the Driftless”
by Colette Wright Adams