Timothy Taylor has announced the representation of Marina Adams (b.1960, New Jersey) 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 steady and responsive. Working between New York and Parma, Italy, Adams also paints small format gouache works on paper in the hills of Italy that inform the work she makes in her studio in New York.
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 at our 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 MFA
from 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 group
exhibitions include Light as Space: Marina Adams, Joanne Greenbaum, Anne Truitt, Maruani Mercier,
Knokke, Belgium (2024); 50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum (2023); Unrepeated: Unique Prints from
Two Palms, David Zwirner, New York (2022); Affinities for Abstraction: Artists on Eastern Long Island
1950 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; Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Colby College Museum
of 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 Memorial
Fellowship (2016) and the Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters (2018).
