About the artwork:
To create her signature monotypes, Adams paints with watercolor and draws with water-soluble crayon directly on a wood plate. After the image is finished, it is put in a press where 400 tons of flat, vertical pressure is applied to transfer it onto a sheet of watercolor paper. This not only transfers the original artwork but also the grain of the wood plate on which it was created. Adams' images are only printed once, resulting in a unique final work.
Sampling motifs from textile design, architecture, and postmodern poetry, as well as Moorish mosaics like the tessellated walls in the Alhambra palace in Grenada, Spain, Adams responds to color and form as she paints, resulting in a rhythmic relationship between the two. When speaking about her work, Adams has said that abstraction creates space for thought, rather than dictating it; it opens up the opportunity for experience.
About the artist:
Marina Adams is an abstract painter and printmaker whose work employs vivid colors and undulating asymmetrical forms. The artist has collaborated with poets, and her work possesses a lyrical quality. Adams' work embraces new technologies in printmaking as well as a painterly style that emphasizes the gestural.
MARINA ADAMS is a painter based in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York City and Parma, Italy. She earned degrees from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Columbia University, New York, NY.
Adams has developed a dynamic practice of clear and powerful abstract language that centers around exploring the possibilities of form and movement while displaying the structural power of color. The curator Helga Christoffersen said that her work “demands silence, enabling us to think and dream and create space.” Rather than a purely optical matter, the artist understands painting as the manifestation of intangibles such as temperament, sensibility, intellect, and research. Her work draws inspiration from the natural world, music, textiles, architecture, and poetry and engages in a persistent dialogue with art historical predecessors such as Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Alma Thomas, Willem de Kooning, and Hilma af Klint.
Past solo exhibitions include Cosmic Repair, Timothy Taylor, New York, NY (2025); The Art of Living Slowly, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (2025); Devals x Salon 94, Paris, France (2024); To a World Full of Others, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland (2024); In the Garden of My Memory, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China (2023); Mother Tongue, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany; (2023); Flower Power, Von Bartha, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); What Are You Listening To?, LGDR, New York, NY (2022); Wild Is Its Own Way, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2021); Deep Breathing, Von Bartha, S-Chanf, Switzerland (2021); FOCUS: Marina Adams, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2020); Soft Power and Anemones, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY(2017; 2019); and The Secret of Greek Grammar, Larsen Warner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2019). She is in the public collection of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, NY), Longlati Foundation (Shanghai, China), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX) and Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), among others. She is a 2016 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and received the 2018 Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Marina Adams utilizes a distinct palette of rich, saturated hues to create biomorphic forms that undulate and press together with pulsating energy. Sampling motifs from textile design, architecture, and postmodern poetry, as well as Moorish mosaics like the tessellated walls in the Alhambra palace in Grenada, Spain, Adams responds to color and form as she paints, resulting in a rhythmic relationship between the two.More
- Framed: 18.0 x 15.0 x 1.5 in.
- Signed and dated recto in graphite
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