Marina Adams

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I still think about how Cézanne finds an edge, what that is, and how we see. That’s something that enters into my work: how we see, how we experience. Marina Adams, “In Conversation Marina Adams with Alex Bacon,” Brooklyn Rail, May 2019

Marina Adams is a painter who looks to art history, poetry, and life for inspiration. In an Artforum review of Adams’s recent solo exhibition Anemones at Salon 94, Barry Schwabsky notes, “Color is just about everything in Adams’s work, and everything seems animated, in movement.” He also proclaims that the show “cemented her reputation as among the best abstract painters around.”

In advance of her exhibition FOCUS: Marina Adams, which features work from the past four years, Adams introduces her art with a Tuesday Evenings presentation titled “Breath Notes.”

Marina Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1960 and lives between New York and Parma, Italy. She earned a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Salon 94, New York; Galerie Gris, Hudson, New York; CUE Art Foundation, New York; and Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at the Camden Arts Centre, London; Lisson Gallery, New York; American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; and The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey. She has also collaborated with poets, generating the publications Actualities with Norma Cole (Litmus Press, 2015); Taormina with Vincent Katz (Kayrock, 2012); Vue sur Mer with Christian Prigent (Gervais Jassaud, 2010); and The Tango with Leslie Scalapino (Granary Books, 2001). Adams received the Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the Academy of Arts and Letters and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, a popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics, is free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 7 pm in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's auditorium. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250; a live broadcast of the presentations is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. A limited number of tickets (limit two per person) will be available for purchase ($5) from 10 am until 4 pm the day of the lecture online. Free admission tickets (limit two per person) are available at the Modern's information desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. The museum galleries remain open until 7 pm on Tuesdays during the series (general admission applies).

Café Modern serves cocktails and appetizers until 6:45 pm on Tuesday nights during the lecture series.