Artist Biography

Adrienne Pike Adelphia is a contemporary artist with her studio in America’s heartland.  A Midwest farmer’s daughter, Pike was born in Ottawa, Illinois, and grew up in the woods outside of Illinois’s Starved Rock State Park.  With a love for the outdoors, she has always been passionate about nature and inspired by the way spirit moves in all things.

Adrienne received her degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; where she studied painting, ceramics, hot glass, metals and serigraphy. Today, she paints with oil and watercolor, throws and sculpts clay, blows glass at Starved Rock Hot Glass in Ottawa and experiments with printmaking. In 2010, Adrienne began harvesting local clay out of a nearby creek for some of her ceramic work. 

Adrienne  is the current Vice-President of the Ottawa Art League and is also a member of the Kendall Arts Guild, Chicago Artists Coalition and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. She is one of fourteen artists that were chosen to take part in Coalition Gallery from September, 2010 through September, 2011.  Coalition Gallery is a cooperative program of the Chicago Artists’ Coalition in which the artists manage all aspects of the gallery.

Adrienne has shown her work in Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky and Southern California

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