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"Whispering Anam Cara"

The location of Marsha Red Adams' studio, situated in the Red Rocks of Northern Arizona, adds depth to her inspiration - with an opportunity for timeless wanderings through the South West landscape. Her strong love of the land, with the jewels this austere desert reveals, accounts for the natural human, animal and plant forms dominating her imagery.  Through her special uses of the "photogram" process, the viewer can sense a direct photographic tracing of a coyote skull or, for that matter, an actual imprint of the human form. Pictured to the left is the installation, "Anam Cara," comprising eleven, eight foot, life-size photogram scrolls.  For detailed information on this work, click on the image.

In addition to the uniqueness of her approach, the viewer is also rewarded with beautifully printed, sensual slices of nature rendered through her keen eye for "light" raking across tactile, geographic surfaces. Adams' photography makes use of several processes fine-tuned over many years of work, such as multiple printing, collage, the photogram (also known as rayogram), and more recently, she has reintroduced painting, with a somewhat subtle yet exciting palette.  She is well versed in the photographic medium and her work can range from experimental to a more traditional form of a single, fine art, gelatin silver print.