DOUG JOHNSON: Ms. Adams is always testing new ideas and methods. For example, she recently used heat transfers to copy images of paintings she made years ago onto cloth. Usually, she will cover the lines of her drawings using a straight stitch on her sewing machine. But for this series, she is experimenting with a zig-zag stitch that looks like a line made up of angles.
B.J. ADAMS: “I’m doing the whole thing in zig-zag. Just trying something new.”
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FAITH LAPIDUS: Many of her works are influenced by nature, trees, and flowers. Some have a dreamy, surreal look. Others are very realistic. One work shows a large embroidered white magnolia flower sewn onto a painted surface. It is so detailed that unless you look up close, you would think it was a painting.
B.J. ADAMS: “This is one from my drawings of the magnolia, which we have in our backyard. The magnolias die so quickly when you bring them in, so I had to draw it quickly before I started in on the stitching.”
Detail of Ms. Adams' work "Catching the Moment."
FAITH LAPIDUS: Below the flower, Ms. Adams embroidered leaves in a range of colors to show how they change as they dry.
B.J. ADAMS: “They started out this kind of dark kelly and then they go to yellow, green, and brown and end up this color down here. It’s called “Catching the Moment” because they die so quickly.”
DOUG JOHNSON: Many works by B. J. Adams are abstract. This means there is no image, just an arrangement of forms and colors. One series is based on her time teaching in New Zealand. She used very dense stitches that are very close together to make flowing lines of bright colors.
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