Marina Adams

(American, born 1960)

Marina Adams is a Contemporary American artist known for her large-scale painting. Fluently pushing color into form, Adams creates undulating, interlocking shapes that reveal an internal rhythm. As the artist puts it, "Meaning and intellect in abstract art can be difficult to locate, as there is no narrative to lead us into it. It is like the voice itself. I use pattern and color to create the voice. And I use structure and form to channel it." Adams’ compositions use saturated shades and sensual shapes that are reminiscent of landscapes or bodies. Adams was born in Orange, NJ in 1960. She earned degrees from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and Columbia University. Past solo exhibitions of her work include shows at Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY in 2013 and 2015, Hionasgallery, NY, 2013, CUE art Foundation, NY, 2008, and at Magazzino d’arte Moderna, Rome,Italy, 1997. Her work was featured in Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowuat the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2016). Adams was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016. She currently lives in Manhattan, and maintains studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Parma, Italy.