Elisa Adams — Artist’s Biography & Statement
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Elisa Adams is an award-winning sculptor from the Boston area. Born in 1959, she is a first-generation Albanian-American. While she loved to draw and paint as a child, art was not considered a career path in her family. Instead, Elisa chose to use her hands in another way—she has been a successful chiropractor for four decades while also continuing various artistic practices.
In 2004, Elisa shifted her focus towards sculpting. Primarily self-taught, her work shows the unique talent and techniques that she has developed to express her voice. Elisa has worked with numerous galleries in Boston, MA, Lake Worth, FL, and currently, her work can be seen at Three Stones Gallery in Concord, MA, and Gallery Sitka in Newport, RI.
She has participated in over 100 national and international exhibitions. She has also shown at art fairs including Art Expo NY (2017, 2018), SOFA Chicago (2019), The Palm Beach Show (2019, 2022), Palm Beach Modern (2022), as well as Spectrum Miami during Miami Art Basel Week (2018 and 2019). She has won multiple awards and has been written up in various magazines.
Elisa creates commissioned work for individuals and institutions and recently had 14 sculptures installed in a permanent collection (June 2023) at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Wishing Stone Garden, a rooftop garden that is open to the public at 300 Longwood Ave.
Elisa served as Membership Chair of New England Sculptors Association (NESA) from 2015-2017, President of NESA from 2019 to 2022, and currently serves NESA as the Exhibitions Chair.
Artist statement:
My tabletop alabaster, soapstone, and marble sculptures invite you into a heartfelt space to feel joy, calm, and peace. Thematically, I weave abstraction, the natural world, and figurative work, animating the immobility of stone. My work is about the movement and energy inherent in the stillness of stone, stimulating a peaceful symmetry of the mind and matter, that can serve as our touchstone as we navigate our lives. My work invites the viewer to take away feelings of possibility and hope, qualities that can inspire positive change, both internally and in our daily lives.
