Timothy Taylor has announced the representation of Marina Adams in London and New York. A solo exhibition of the artist’s work is planned in the gallery’s New York space in September 2025. Adams will continue to be represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin and von Bartha in Basel and Copenhagen.
Adams paints kinetic abstractions that explore the power of pattern. In her vibrant canvases, shapes engage energetically. Brimming with intense colour, her paintings are at times muscular and sculptural, at others sinuous and ethereal. Each distills the artist’s physical energy as she works—at once steadyand responsive. Working between New York and Parma, Italy, Adams also paints small formatgouache works on paper in the hills of Italy that inform the work she makes in her studio in New York. She modulates her hues with varied modes of paint application and layers of translucent pigment. Comingling and juxtaposing unlikely combinations of colour, she creates chromatic relationships that lend an uncanny luminosity to the paintings.
Adams draws inspiration from commonalities, rhythms, and resonances across historically and geographically diverse cultural materials. In addition to her dialogue with her predecessors, Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Alma Thomas, Willem de Kooning, and Hilma af Klint, she returns to the designs of Moorish mosaics, Indigenous American Southwest pottery, and Uzbek textiles, among other artistic traditions. Within these sources, she finds patterns that emerge from the foundational aspects of the natural world. With titles that reference the artist’s deep investment in poetry and music, these paintings welcome the engagement of other senses and of the viewer’s interpretive powers.
Adams works with the belief that painting can open up context for reflection and transformation. “What we call abstract painting is about creating a space for thought,” she has explained, “a way to open the mind up and allow space for the other senses… When you look at them, you absorb an experience.”
“We are delighted to be working with Marina Adams. I have long admired her distinctive approach to form and colour and the energy of her vibrant paintings. I look forward to presenting Marina’s work for the first time in Hong Kong next week and then later this fall atour first exhibition together in New York.”
—Tim Taylor, Founder
About the artist
Born in 1960 in Orange, New Jersey, Adams received her BFA from Tyler School of Art and her MFAfrom Columbia University. Recently, she has mounted solo exhibitions at Devals x Salon 94, Paris(2024); von Bartha, Basel (2024); Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (2023); Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin(2023); von Bartha, Copenhagen (2022); LGDR, New York (2022); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London(2021); Journal Gallery, New York (2021); and Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth (2020). Recent groupexhibitions includeLight as Space: Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, Anne Truitt,Maruani Mercier,Knokke, Belgium (2024);50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum (2023);Unrepeated: Unique PrintsfromTwo Palms, David Zwirner, New York (2022);Affinities for Abstraction: Artists on Eastern Long Island1950 to 2020, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (2021); and(Nothing But) Flowers, Karma,New York (2020). Her work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; ModernArt Museum of Fort Worth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Colby College Museumof Art, Waterville, Maine; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai.She has collaborated on volumes with poets such as Norma Cole, Charles Bernstein, Vincent Katz,Leslie Scalapino and Christian Prigent. Adams is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim MemorialFellowship (2016) and the Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts andLetters (2018).
