Peter Blum Gallery has announced that it represents New York-based artist Marina Adams.
For more than three decades, Adams has developed a dynamic and powerful abstract language that explores the possibilities of form and movement through the structural force of color.
Adams understands abstraction not as theory but as a “synthesis of body and mind.” She embraces what John Keats termed “negative capability”—the ability to exist within uncertainties and mysteries without reaching after fact or reason.
Her sources include the natural world, textiles, and the rhythmic cadences of poetry and music. Adams also engages in an ongoing dialogue with Modernist artists including Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning, while maintaining a singular and distinctly contemporary voice.
Adams recently had a solo exhibition with the gallery, titled ‘Works on Paper: A Survey,’ held from April 9 to May 29, 2026, with its accompanying hardcover publication. Her work is currently on view in the group exhibition ‘Clever, Quick, Magnetic: The Art of Witty Banter,’ curated by David Salle at Oklahoma Contemporary in Oklahoma City from September 3, 2026, to January 11, 2027. Adams’s work will also be featured in the gallery’s presentation at The Armory Show and in ‘Abstract Expressionism: The East End, 1940 to Today’ at the Parrish Art Museum.
