Cyclopedia No. 1 (anther). Vitreograph, acrylic ink, lithography. 30 x 22 inches.
 

paintings, drawings, works on paper (1994 - 2003)

Excerpt from Allowing for Accretion: The Art of Adele Henderson by Susan Tallman

Surprisingly perhaps, the standard definition of the word "accretion" is narrowly biological: Webster's New Collegiate gives us "growth; specifically organic growth," and "increase by external addition," and most poignantly, "a growing together of parts that are naturally separate." But "accretion" is regularly found in a multitude of other settings: in geology it describes the languid processes through which minerals and other substances grow from discrete components into rock. More metaphorically, it is used to speak of the ways in which elements of culture - historical events, figures, objects - become indissolubly attached to the emotional and social residue of subsequent years and usage.

 

 
Phylon. Acrylic on paper. 48 x 37 inches.
 
 

Adele Henderson received her BFA from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and MFA from Arizona State University. She joined the University at Buffalo (State University of New York) Department of Art (now Visual Studies) in 1987, served as department chair from 1998-2004, and is currently the Director of Graduate Studies. Major awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (Works on Paper); Constance Saltonstall Foundations for the Arts Fellowship (Printmaking); Artists Projects: New York State Regional Initiative grant; and residency fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Brandywine, Roswell Museum and Art Center, and Open Studio (Toronto). Henderson's artwork has been exhibited in over 30 solo exhibitions across the US including the Hewlitt Gallery at Carnegie Mellon, Anchor Graphics, Colgate University, and the Print Center, Philadelphia, and in over 150 group exhibitions countries including Australia, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, and Slovenia. Her prints and works on paper are in the collections of the Boston Museum Of Fine Arts; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art; National Museum Of American Art; New York Public Library; the Kennedy Museum of American Art, and the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, among others.

 
 
Abiogenesis No. 12. Color lithograph, acrylic ink. 30 inches x 22 inches.
 
 
 
Heteronomous. Acrylic ink on paper. 37 x 48 inches.
 
 
 
Lazaretto No. 6. Four color lithograph, acrylic ink, gesso. 30 x 22 inches.
 
 
 
Lazaretto No. 4. Four color lithograph, toner, acrylic ink, prismacolor. 30 x 22 inches.
Collection Elgin Community College.
 
 
 
Anamnesis No. 4. Collage with beeswax, acrylic, oil. 34 x 49 inches.
Private Collection
 
 
 
Lazaretto No 7. Acrylic and oil on prepared panel. 46 x 36 inches.
 
 
 
Phylon No. 4. Lithograph, acrylic ink on paper. 30 x 22 inches.
 
 
 
Lazaretto No. 5. Six color lithograph, acrylic, gouache. 30 x 22 inches.
 
 
 
 
Sublimation No. 3. Monotype, acrylic, oil, lihthography, beeswax. 30 x 22 inches.
Collection Elgin Community College
 
 
 
Ontogeny No. 4. Four color lithograph, acrylic ink, toner. Private collection. 30 x 22 inches.
 
 
 
Sublimation No. 4. Vitreograph with acrylic ink, oil. 30 x 22 inches.
Collection New York Public Library.
 
 
 
Cyclopedia No. 2 (stamen). Vitreograph, acrylic ink, lithography. 30 x 22.
 
 
 
Cyclopedia No. 3 (style). Vitreograph, acrylic ink, lithography. 30 x 22 inches.
 
 
 
Cyclopedia No. 4 (ovary). Vitreograph, acrylic ink, lithography. 30 x 22.
 
 
 
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