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 Institite 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.
