Adrienne Day - Artist
Adrienne C. Day is an award-winning artist who has been painting and making prints for over 30 years.
“Early in my life, I knew that all I wanted to be a “maker” of some kind. Initially my interests were in drawing and painting. Once introduced to printmaking as an undergraduate at OU, I was immediately captivated with these astonishingly expansive processes, continuing to do graduate work at Arizona State. Responding to these printmaking approaches and materials inform the imagery, sometimes lengthy and intricate, other times rapid and spontaneous.”
Her subject matter ranges from carefully rendered images of animals and the natural world to composite dream-like images that convey a sense of wonder at the complexities of life. Each piece is spurred from an event, a conversation with a friend, pondering the capricious nature of fate or odd dichotomies that inform daily life. These animals, objects, buildings and textures explore relationships between the natural and man-made worlds.
Adrienne has received recognition for her work and has been included in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions across the US and Europe. Her work is included in collections of universities, museums, corporations and private collectors across the country.
Originally from Mississippi, and living in several parts of the US, she currently lives in Oklahoma. Here she enjoys the manic weather, diverse landscapes, beautiful sunsets, interesting people and birds, along with a couple of beloved dogs.
Education
1990 - Master of Fine Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
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1986 - Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
“Small Works XI” The Depot, Norman, OK
“51st Annual Juried Art Show” The Goddard Center, Ardmore, OK
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2019
Connect:Collect exchange portfolio. Oklahoma City Univ. curated by Emma Difani, and Alexa Goetzinger.
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2018
“OK Collects” Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
“Wild Thing: Adventures with the Permanent Collection”, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
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2016
“Group Exhibition” Northern Oklahoma College
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2014-16
Faculty Exhibit”, Firehouse Art Center, Norman, Oklahoma
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2015/18
“The Exquisite Corpse”, Untitled Artspace Gallery, Oklahoma City
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2015
“The Elaborate Collaborate”, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City
"National Weather Center Biennial”, Norman, OK Mel Chin, Juror
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2014
“Animal Mothers Exchange Portfolio”, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, curated by Melanie Yazzie
2013
“ARTNOW", Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City
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2012
“Impressit, Printmaking in Oklahoma”, Curator and participant, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK
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2011-14
“Monothon”, Untitled Artspace, Oklahoma City, OK
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2010
"Heart and Soul of the Great Plains”, Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK 2008 “Portfolios and Suites from the Print Collection”, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, OH
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2007-09
“Suite Oklahoma II”, curator and participant. Exhibited at 8 museums/art centers around the state
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2006
“100 Oklahomans by 100 Oklahomans”, City Arts, Oklahoma City
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2004
“19th Annual International Exhibit”, University of Texas at Tyler
2003 - "Seven State Biennial”, Univ. of Science and Arts, Chickasha, OK
“The Oklahoma Painting Biennial V,” City Arts, Oklahoma City
“Prints from Mimosa Press,” Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City
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1999
“ASU Alumni Exhibit”, Southeastern Graphics Conference, Tempe, Arizona “Counterpoint", Hill Country Arts Center, Ingram, Texas
“Paper in Particular”, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri
“The Print Show: Four Oklahoma Printmakers”, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City
“An Artistʼs View of Her Life: Traces of American and Polish Culture”, exchange portfolio, Southeastern Graphics Council, Cleveland, Ohio, Wesleyan College, Truman State College
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1997
“The Democratic Print", Wright State University, Dayton Ohio CD-ROM
“A Womanʼs Place is in the World”, Group Invitational, Alexander Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
“Suite Oklahoma”, exchange portfolio, curator and participant. Exhibited at 4 art centers and museums in the state.
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1995
“I.A.O. / M.A.R.S. Exchange Exhibit”, Phoenix, Arizona
“Combined talents”, The Florida National. Florida State Univ. Museum, Tallahassee, Florida 1994
“Positive Images of Diversity, Juried Group Exhibition, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee.
“Women's Work”, Group Invitational, City Arts Center Gallery, Oklahoma City
“Group Print Exhibition”, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
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1993
“Chroma”, Group Invitational, Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee, Florida
“Oklahoma Painting Biennial II”, Norick Art Center, Oklahoma City Univ., Oklahoma 1991
“Interior Motives/Motifs”, Group Invitational, Lower Columbia College Art Gallery, Longview, Washington
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1990
“Icons, Totems and Spirits: From Myth to Reality,” Group Invitational, Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
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1989
“Photo-Derived National Print Exhibition”, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Juror:Joel-Peter Witkin
“Artists Proof ‘89 National Juried Print Exhibition,” Greenville Museum of Art Greenville, North Carolina
“Works on Paper: Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition”, Guadeloupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio, Texas
“The Five Senses”, Arizona State University, University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2021
The Depot, Norman, OK. 73069
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2019
Ponca City Art Association, Ponca City, OK
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1998
Pennebaker Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi
University of Southeastern Oklahoma, Durant, OK, one of “Oklahoma Artists” series 1995 A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
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1995
Leslie Powell Gallery, Lawton, OK
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1993
Individual Artists of Oklahoma, (I.A.O.) Oklahoma City
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1992
Oklahoma City Art Museum at Artsplace, Oklahoma City
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1991
Kirkpatric Center Gallery, Oklahoma City
Publications: Books
Illustrator: Dr. Daniel Snell, Ancient Near East: The Basics, London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2014
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Contributor : John G. Jones, Teena F. Horn and Alan Huffman, The Lines Were Drawn: Narratives on The Success and Failure of School Desegregation in Jackson, Mississippi, 1969 – 1975. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2016
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Illustrator: Dr. Daniel Snell, Religions of the Ancient Near East, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Patti Carr Black, Art in Mississippi:1720-1980, Oxford: University of Mississippi Press and Mississippi Historical Society, 1998
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16 other publications, newspapers, periodicals and exhibition catalogs
Permanent collections that include Adrienne Day's work
American University, Washington, DC
Arizona State University, Tempe
Artist Printmaker Research Collection, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Bradley University Print Collection, Peoria, Illinois
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Carol Reese Museum, East Tennessee State University
Gippsland Centre for Art and Design, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia
Goddard Art Center, Ardmore, Oklahoma
Fred Jones Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma
Mississippi State University, Starkville
Ohio University, Athens
Oklahoma Science Museum, Oklahoma City
Ponca City Art Association, Ponca City, OK
Scottsdale Museum of Art
University of Alberta, Canada
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
University of Florida, Gainesville
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Texas at Tyler
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Corporate Collections
Fellers and Company, Oklahoma City
Symrise (formerly Haarmann and Reimer), Holzminden, Germany
World Neighbors, Oklahoma City