Ben Q. Adams
1942
Ben
Q. Adams, artist, publisher and master printer, is founder and director of
Western Graphics Workshop, Inc. He studied painting and printmaking at the
University of New Mexico and was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to
study lithography at Tamarind Institute in 1972. Awarded a Tamarind Master
Printer’s Certificate in 1973, he accepted a position as a master printer
with Tamarind publications, resigning his position in 1975 to found Western
Graphics Workshop and pursue his own work.
A
native New Mexican, Adams’ paintings, drawings and lithographs reflect his
love of the southwestern landscape, with its radiant light, vivid colors and
rich textures, as well as a way of life that is clearly tied to the earth,
past and present. His works are in the permanent collections of the Oakland
Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Grunewald Collection in
Los Angeles, Goddard Center for the Fine Arts, Albuquerque Museum, San Jose
Museum, Denver Art Museum and Roswell Museum and Art Center as well as other
institutions and private collections.
Western Graphics Workshop, Inc.
R.C. Gorman