Elizabeth Adams’ work as a painter and mixed media artist is informed by previous lives as an investigator of capital punishment cases at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and as an award winning documentary film producer. The process of asking questions, collecting, and re-shaping information was central to that work. As an image-maker, she continues to be engaged in the process of finding things: on the street, in her memory, in another painting, in language -- and reorganizing them into new forms. She has shown her work in venues in the Bay Area and New York City. Her solo show of paintings and works on paper inaugurated the gallery program at San Art in May 2025. In March 2026, she exhibited in and co-curated a group show called "Creatures" also at San Art. She has an MFA from California College of the Arts.  She has studied at the Slade School of Art, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the New York Studio School, where she received the Premier Prize in Drawing and Painting and was awarded a painting fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.