Скачать или смотреть Hionas Gallery presents Marina Adams in "coming thru strange"

February 21- March 24, 2013
Hionas Gallery, 124 Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002
www.hionasgallery.com

This collection of new paintings, created between 2010 and 2013, expands upon Adams' visual investigations that pull the imagination across surprising juxtapositions of color and line, as if encountering a boundary - less intersection. While some works draw the eye beyond the edges of the artist's vivid canvases, viewers will never travel too far from each work's carefully orchestrated foci.

"The subject of the work is the process of painting," Willem de Kooning once remarked, and the painterly touches on hand in Adams' latest abstractions present striking subjects
indeed. Like gazing upon a seascape, observing the rhythms of one's heart, or admiring
the subtle yet pure abstractions of Agnes Martin (also one of her painting's namesakes),
Adams' eye moves with nature, and she graciously allows the motions that dictate it to
inform her paintings from start to finish.

In Coming Thru Strange (2011), Adams composes a series of unusual meetings of color
and contour, all joined by effortless lines that behave like jagged veins, continually
bringing life to every inch of the painting. The work stands out in many ways among the
new collection, relying more on the artist's process and instinct than continuity of shape.

Hers is an optimistic investigation of what color and line can do for nature, and for how it
can move the viewer's eyes yet keep their owner present, inhabiting a "space for thought," as she puts it. "I like for people to go many places," says Adams, "because I have gone many places." Students of palette and form may find themselves unexpectedly visiting the likes of Joan Mitchell and Alma Thomas, or even the portraits of Matisse or ukiyo-e woodprints.