RAiR | 1985-86
Jane Abrams
Jane Abrams (1940- ), a native of Wisconsin and born in Eau Claire, lived and worked in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she was a Regents’ Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque from 1971-93. She gained both a Bachelor of Science (1962) and Master of Science (1967) from the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie before graduating with a MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1971. Among her many accomplishments are two senior National Endowment for the Arts grants as well as grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the John Anson Kittredge Foundation. She was awarded residency grants and visiting artist awards in Canada, Central America, Spain and Southeast Asia as well as in the United States. From 1979 to 2018 Jane participated in about 175 solo and group exhibitions. The Museum at Texas Tech University in Lubbock is but one of the thirty public collections of her work and holds the archive of her award-winning color prints from the 1980s and 1990s.
Jane Abram’s website
AMoCA Collection | Struck, 1992, Oil on carved wood, 20 x 30 in
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • jane abrams “ recent paintings” • june 8, - july 6, 1986
