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ARTIST STATEMENT :
I fell in love with clay when I was 10 years old. Since then I have found it and sculpture to be a significant means of expression in my life. Emotions from peaceful contentment to angry rage - we all feel them in life, see them in nature, and the artist works to express their reality in dance and music and visual arts. Basically an optimistic person, I translate emotions into a physical state and bring them to peoples' attention with beauty and elegance. I love and respect nature with its graceful lines, rhythmic movements and exquisite repetition of forms. I am always deeply satisfied when people see, feel, appreciate and enjoy the relationships to nature and movement in my works. My work is a three dimensional interpretation of life's pleasurable sensations.
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BIO:
Carol Adamec, a native of Long Island, completed her Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree at Alfred University College of Ceramics with a major in sculpture and a minor in education. Working with Albert Paley and Wendall Castle, she received a Master's from SUNY Brockport with her thesis in metal working. Since the early 90's, she has completed numerous graduate study courses at Syracuse University in ceramics, photography and her love, sculpture - working with Roger Mac, Mary Giehl and Matthew Gehring.
Ms Adamec has been interested in clay working since elementary school using her recess time to do additional ceramic projects in the art room. Encouragement by her parents got her involved in her first community show in 1966. An honorable mention award and her first professional sales told her this was the career she was meant to follow. The International Special Olympic Games in Brockport, NY in 1982 had her sending works all over the world.
She lived in the Rochester, NY area until 1985 participating in many Rochester and Buffalo area shows and galleries as well as several on Long Island, Westchester County and Florida. Alfred University and SUNY Brockport both have her works in their permanent collections. She has won numerous local and state-wide awards for her bronze castings, ceramic sculptures and pottery.
Along with caring for a family and engaging in a full-time teaching career, Ms Adamec continued to create elegant sculptures and one-of-a-kind pottery pieces with husband Neville’s strong encouragement. Recently retired as an art teacher from Westhill High School in Syracuse, NY, she also has taught an adult clay class through BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services). “I enjoy teaching and even kept that in mind when I purchased my home/studio so it would be easy for people to get to”.
An active member and past president of the Syracuse Ceramics Guild, Ms. Adamec often creates pieces in clay which she then makes into bronze castings, continuing the tradition of lost wax casting that her jeweler grandfather used many years ago.
Graceful, elegant and sensual are all terms that people use to describe Ms. Adamec’s works.
Sherry Chayat, a free-lance writer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, described Ms. Adamec’s work: ”Her abstract figurative forms remind me of the choreography of Martha Graham. Sleek and rhythmic, they thrust assertively outward and curl protectively inward, exemplifying the principles of contraction and release. The planes and curves of their elegant, elongated limbs seem in perpetual motion....Adamec’s expressionism emanates organically from these shapes. There’s nothing forced or labored about it. “
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RESUME
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Lipe Art Park, City of Syracuse, NY
Art In The Heart, Ithaca, NY
2006 Edgewood Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Foot Long Show, Coyne Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Ludivico Sculpture Garden, Seneca Falls, NY
American Association of University Woman, Skaneateles, NY
One Person Show, Westcott Community Center Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2005 American Association of University Woman, Skaneateles, NY
New York State Art Teachers Association Showcase, Onondaga Library, Onondaga, NY.
2004 New York State Art teachers Association, Edgewood Gallery, Syracuse, NY.
2003 Syracuse Ceramic Guild, New Woodstock Library, New Woodstock, NY.
New York State Art Teachers Association Showcase, Liverpool NY, 2003
1998 Artists As Educators, Visual Arts Showcase, Civic Center, Syracuse, NY
1997 Visual Arts Showcase, Civic Center, Syracuse, NY
1996 Visual Arts Showcase, Civic Center, Syracuse, NY
1995 Syracuse Ceramics Guild Show, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY
1986 NCECA Convention, Syracuse Ceramics Guild, Syracuse, NY
1984 “Womandala” - Sibley’s Ward Gallery, Rochester, NY
1983 “Transitions” - AllOfUs Gallery Workshop, Rochester, NY
1981 Woman's Caucus for Art, RIT Library Gallery, Rochester,
1979 Rochester Savings Bank, Brockport, NY
COLLECTIONS
City of Syracuse, NY, Cultural Resource Council, Totem Project. Installation on S. Salina Street in front of the main entrance to the Galleries.
Alfred University, College of Ceramics, permanent Collection
State University of New York, Brockport, President’s Collection
AWARDS
2007 3rd Prize Vineyard Art Show, Syracuse, NY
1st Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2ne Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2006 1st Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2003 1st Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2nd Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
1st Prize Ceramic Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2001 1st Prize - Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2000 2nd Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
1999 3rd Prize Professional Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
1998 2nd Prize Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
1997 Featured Artist, Syracuse Ceramics Guild, Pottery Faire, Syracuse, NY
The 24 Collection of the 14th Annual WCNY Art Invitational, Syracuse, NY
2nd Prize Ceramics, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
1996 1st Prize Ceramics, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
2nd Prize Ceramics, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
3rd Prize Sculpture, New York State Fair, Syracuse, NY
1985 Purchase Award, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
1984 Juror’s Award, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
EDUCATION
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Graduate hours in sculpture 1996-present
SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY, Master of Liberal Studies 1985
SUNY College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1967
PROFESIONAL EMPLOYMENT
1976-present Self employed: Brockport, NY & Syracuse, NY
Sculptor, potter, artist in residence, graphic designer.
1989-2007 Westhill Central School, Syracuse, NY
High School Art Teacher, Photography & Ceramics
1987-1989 Liverpool Central School, Liverpool, NY
High School Art Teacher, Photography, Drawing and Advertising
1985-1987 Cato-Meridian Central School, Cato, NY
High School & Elementary Art Teacher
1971-1972 Churchville-Chili Central School, Churchville, NY
Elementary Art Teacher
1968-1969 Churchville-Chili Central School, Churchville, NY
Elementary Art Teacher
1967-1968 SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
Teaching Assistant
Spencerport Central School, Spencerport, NY
Jr. High Art Teacher
JURIED CRAFT SHOWS
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Clothesline sale , Rochester, NY
Syracuse Ceramic Guild Show, Cazanovia, NY
Clay Group IV summer Garden Show, Syracuse, NY
Art in the Park ; Skaneateles Marcellus show, Marcellus, NY
Allied Arts, Christmas Sale, Syracuse NY
Allentown Festival, Buffalo, NY
Waterfront Festival, Canandaigua, NY,
Memorial Art Gallery of the U of Rochester, Christmas Craft Sale, Rochester, NY
Lake Country Craftsmen, Rochester, NY
Colden Art Festival, Colden, NY
Buffalo Craftsmen’s Holiday Show, Buffalo, NY
Fire and Earth”, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
Roycrofters At Large, East Aurora, NY
Keenan Center “100 American Craftsmen”, Lockport, NY
Suburban Rochester Art Group Summer Show, Greece, NY
“Design Sources” of Interior Design Society of Western NY, Rochester, NY
Naples Art and Music Festival, Naples, NY
Rome Arts Festival, Rome, NY
Elmira “Art in the Park”, Elmira, NY
Upstate New York Craftman’s Guild, Buffalo, NY
Westchester Art Workshop Spring Show, Westchester, NY
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