Marina Adams

Marina Adams’ second solo exhibition with Galerie Thomas Schulte is titled The Art of Living Slowly, a subtle nod to examine the speed and direction of our internet present. She considers how slowing down can offer another sense of time and space, opening room for clarity, and like deep breathing can bring an expansion of heart and a gain in empathy.

The exhibition offers both medium to smaller scaled paintings as well as works on paper. Surrounded by the trees in her Long Island studio, her focus on paper has returned to tree drawings, which have entered her practice at various other times in her career. In the making of these works she says, “I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ something. Instead, I’m trying to conjure up the energy of a tree, the energy of a line, the energy of a space”. This transference of energy connects the figurative and non-figurative as there is life force in everything.

Marina Adams, born 1960 in New Jersey, earned degrees from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Columbia University, New York, NY. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2016) and the Award of Merit Medal for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2018). Adams has participated in various solo and group exhibitions, including the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (2023), the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (2021), Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth (2020), Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2016), and CUE Art Foundation (2008). Marina Adams’ work is in the collections of the MoMA, New York, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai. She lives and works in New York, Bridgehampton, Long Island, and Parma, Italy.