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Marina Adams

Marina Adams

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    Marina Adams

    Marina Adams, born 1960 in New Jersey, has developed a dynamic and abstract painterly practice of clear and powerful formal language that centers around exploring the possibilities of form and movement while displaying the structural power of color. Her vibrant works create space and motion by assembling organic, asymmetrical shapes into free-flowing, rhythmic patterns. As the curator Helga Christoffersen put it, Adams’ “work demands silence, enabling us to think and dream and create space”, while embracing gesturalism and improvisation. She reduces the work down to its essentials, allowing space for all the senses. 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 literature–Thelonious Monk, Moroccan rugs, Moorish mosaics, and the poet Joanne Kyger–while also engaging in a persistent dialogue with art historical predecessors, such as Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Alma Thomas, Willem de Kooning, and Hilma af Klint.

     

    Marina Adams earned degrees from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Columbia University, New York, NY. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016) and the Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2018). Adams has participated in various solo and group exhibitions, including the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2021), Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth (2020), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2016), and CUE Art Foundation (2008). Marina Adams’ work is in the collections of the MoMA, New York, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, where Adams will have a solo exhibition opening in September 2023. She lives and works in New York, Bridgehampton, Long Island, and Parma, Italy. In April 2023, Galerie Thomas Schulte is showing the artist’s first solo exhibition in Germany.

  • Works
    • Marina Adams, Les Demoiselles Trois, 2023
      Marina Adams
      Les Demoiselles Trois, 2023
      acrylic on linen
      249 × 198 cm
      98 × 78 in
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    • Marina Adams, Stanleys Repetoire, 2022
      Marina Adams
      Stanleys Repetoire, 2022
      acrylic on linen
      198 × 173 cm
      78 × 68 in
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  • Selected Works
    • Marina Adams Dark Beauty, 2021 acrylic on linen 101.6 x 76.2 cm 40 x 30 in
      Marina Adams
      Dark Beauty, 2021
      acrylic on linen
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
      40 x 30 in
    • Marina Adams SeaSong, 2023 acrylic on linen 249 × 198 cm 98 × 78 in
      Marina Adams
      SeaSong, 2023
      acrylic on linen
      249 × 198 cm
      98 × 78 in
    • Marina Adams Peyote 4, 2022 acrylic on linen 172.7 x 147.3 cm 68 x 58 in
      Marina Adams
      Peyote 4, 2022
      acrylic on linen
      172.7 x 147.3 cm
      68 x 58 in
    • Marina Adams Like Thelonious, 2023 acrylic on linen 198 × 173 cm 78 × 68 in
      Marina Adams
      Like Thelonious, 2023
      acrylic on linen
      198 × 173 cm
      78 × 68 in
    • Marina Adams Mondrian, 2022 acrylic on linen 101.6 x 76.2 cm 40 x 30 in
      Marina Adams
      Mondrian, 2022
      acrylic on linen
      101.6 x 76.2 cm
      40 x 30 in
    • Marina Adams Tonepoem, 2023 acrylic on linen 198 × 173 cm 78 × 68 in
      Marina Adams
      Tonepoem, 2023
      acrylic on linen
      198 × 173 cm
      78 × 68 in
    • Marina Adams Crayon Drawing 17, 2022 crayon on paper 35.5 × 28 cm 14 × 11 in framed dimensions 49 × 41 × 3 cm 19 ⅛ × 16 ⅛ × 1 ⅛ in
      Marina Adams
      Crayon Drawing 17, 2022
      crayon on paper
      35.5 × 28 cm
      14 × 11 in

      framed dimensions
      49 × 41 × 3 cm
      19 ⅛ × 16 ⅛ × 1 ⅛ in
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    • Marina Adams Crayon Drawing 5, 2022 crayon on paper 35.5 × 28 cm 14 × 11 in framed dimensions 49 × 41 × 3 cm 19 ⅛ × 16 ⅛ × 1 ⅛ in
      Marina Adams
      Crayon Drawing 5, 2022
      crayon on paper
      35.5 × 28 cm
      14 × 11 in

      framed dimensions
      49 × 41 × 3 cm
      19 ⅛ × 16 ⅛ × 1 ⅛ in
    • Marina Adams Crayon Drawing 18, 2022 crayon on paper 35.5 × 28 cm 14 × 11 in framed dimensions 49 × 41 × 3 cm 19 ⅛ × 16 ⅛ × 1 ⅛ in
      Marina Adams
      Crayon Drawing 18, 2022
      crayon on paper
      35.5 × 28 cm
      14 × 11 in

      framed dimensions
      49 × 41 × 3 cm
      19 ⅛ × 16 ⅛ × 1 ⅛ in
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    • MOTHER TONGUE

      MOTHER TONGUE

      Marina Adams 28 April TO 10 June 2023
      Marina Adams’ loose composing of color and line opens up richly evocative constellations that are both alive with energetic fluctuations and pared down spaces of quiet reflection. During Gallery Weekend Berlin, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Mother Tongue, an exhibition of Adams’ recent paintings, including a new large-scale canvas stretched across...
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