ARTIST STATEMENT
In the beginning, my art takes many organic and indistinct forms. This sense of visual ambiguity is important for me, as it creates an environment that offers an opportunity for free and abstract thought. I prefer to say I “grow” my art rather than create it; an organic process in which each individual piece plays an active role and evolves within its own circumstance. My hope is to encourage the viewer to decide what I “grew” based on their own personal experience rather than making the subject matter distinguishable.
Nature plays an important part of my artwork, both as a source of material and inspiration. In my view, nature is the purest form of art and by using sticks and other found objects from the natural world, I try to capture some of that essence and remind the viewer that nature is itself an art.
My artwork develops from a basis of freedom and exploration. For me, the process exceeds the importance of the piece and I am guided by mistakes and roadblocks; I use them as an opportunity to learn the potential of the materials and myself.
I work in collaboration with my materials rather than in command, allowing each individual characteristic to guide me. I stray from the traditional, hoping to discover new possibilities, encourage organic development, and thus, new ideas. With every piece, I seek to free myself from the limitations and assumptions of what art can be and what can be accomplished with diverse materials.
My work spans many mediums and subject matter, but the underlying theme in every piece is the idea that each part must come together to create a unifying entity. For me, an overwhelming theme in our natural world is that everything exists simultaneously – separately and symbiotically, on a micro and macro level. It’s a principal I am captivated by and naturally respond to in my artwork, envisioning every little piece as an integral part of the whole.
BIOGRAPHY
Adrienne is the daughter of a winemaker and a musician; she was raised in a home with a garden filled with flowers and fruit trees with plenty of books and art supplies at her disposal.
Although she always had a love for art, when she found herself at Syracuse University for college, her initial plan was to follow a more “traditional” path. She quickly found herself unable to ignore her creative calling and by the start of her 2nd year had transferred into the School of Art with the intention of being an illustration major.
Before she could take even one illustration class she tripped and fell into a printmaking class and within the hour transferred programs.
The next three years were a beautiful yet exhausting creative journey filled with sleepless nights and tears of frustration and joy. She learned lots of things, like papermaking, numerous forms of printmaking, and a whole lot more much of which she has forgotten by now. She never grew tired of learning more, even when her art asked tedious tasks of her.
In 2016, She emerged with little direction or understanding of what was next and a BFA in printmaking, or so she thought.
A few months after moving back home, while she was working at an art store trying to figure out what to do with her life, Adrienne received a letter from her Alma mater questioning her absence from classes as she still had credits to fulfill before she could graduate.
Distraught, she begrudgingly enrolled in a ceramics class at a community college to complete the credits. (She had taken ceramics in college and was sure she didn’t care for it one bit.)
As fate would have it, she soon fell deeply in love with clay, and it consumed her.
In 2020 after a few beautiful and exhausting years in the ceramics studio, filled with tears of frustration and joy, Adrienne founded Spoon and Sprig Studio so she could share her love of ceramics and art with the world.
Over the past few years Adrienne has grown her business, sold her pottery at markets and online, had solo shows, given artist talks, and filled people’s hands with mugs and homes with art.
She continues to grow her creative practice and business in Lake Tahoe, where she lives with her boyfriend Dylan, her dog Tulip, and her Cat Cheeba. She works out of a small but mighty studio that she loves very much.
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2017 Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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2019 Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Juror: Scott Hudson
Best of Show
1st Place, Ceramic Sculpture
1st Place, Raku
1st Place, Functional Sculpture
Honorable Mention, Functional Sculpture
2018 Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Juror: Tony Natsoulas
3rd Place, Ceramic Sculpture
Most Authentic Vision
2017 Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Juror: Frances Melhop
Best of Show
1st Place, 3D Mixed Media
2nd Place, 3D Mixed Media
Honorable Mention, 3D Mixed Media
Honorable Mention, Ceramic Sculpture
Honorable Mention, Printmaking
3D Technical Merit
Most Promising Emerging Artist
2016 Marion Behr Printmaking Award, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2014 Focus Award, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2012 Napa Valley Arts Council Scholarship, Napa, CA
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2021 Ecocentric, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2021 Off Center, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2020 Off Center, Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA
2020 Creature Comforts, Solo Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2019 Learning Curve, Napa, Ca
2019 LTCC Art First Class, South Lake Tahoe City Hall Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2019 Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2019 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA
2018 Winners Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2018 LTCC Art First Class, South Lake Tahoe City Hall Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2018 Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2018 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA
2017 Winners Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2017 "Alteration of Generations," Benko Gallery, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2017 Student Art Exhibition, Lake Tahoe Community College, South Lake Tahoe, CA
2017 California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, CA
2017 Arts Guild of Sonoma Invitational (Zaza Fetterly) Sonoma, CA
2016 Fair Exchange, Leeds College of Art, Leeds, United Kingdom
2016 BFA Thesis Exhibition, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2016 Printmaking Show, Syracuse, NY
2016 Tied Up, Spark Gallery, Syracuse, Ny
2016 Unstretched, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2016 Off the Deep End, Apostrophe S Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2016 Chaos, Arc Gallery and Studios, San Francisco, CA
2015 Call the Fire Department, It’s Hot as Balls!, Apostrophe S Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2015 Free Swim, Syracuse, NY
2014 Free Swim, Spark Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2014 First Year Juried Show, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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2016 Tied Up, Spark Gallery, Syracuse, NY
in collaboration with Andrew Feilding and Eliza Warpner
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Erin Kelly, “Spark Contemporary Art Space,” Jerk Magazine, Syracuse, NY, April 2016, Vol.9 Issue 9 Pg. 48-51