Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce the representation of Marina Adams in London and New York. A new painting by Adams will be included in the forthcoming Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, which will be the artist’s debut presentation with the gallery, and a solo exhibition of the artist’s work is planned in the gallery’s New York space in September 2025. Adams will continue to be represented by Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin and von Bartha in Basel and Copenhagen.

Adams paints kinetic abstractions that explore the power of pattern. In her vibrant canvases, shapes engage energetically. Brimming with intense colour, her paintings are at times muscular and sculptural, at others sinuous and ethereal. Each distills the artist’s physical energy as she works—at once steady and responsive. Working between New York and Parma, Italy, Adams also paints small format gouache works on paper in the hills of Italy that inform the work she makes in her studio in New York. She modulates her hues with varied modes of paint application and layers of translucent pigment. Comingling and juxtaposing unlikely combinations of colour, she creates chromatic relationships that lend an uncanny luminosity to the paintings. Adams draws inspiration from commonalities, rhythms, and resonances across historically and geographically diverse cultural materials. In addition to her dialogue with her predecessors, Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Alma Thomas, Willem de Kooning, and Hilma af Klint, she returns to the designs of Moorish mosaics, Indigenous American Southwest pottery, and Uzbek textiles, among other artistic traditions. Within these sources, she finds patterns that emerge from the foundational aspects of the natural world. With titles that reference the artist’s deep investment in poetry and music, these paintings welcome the engagement of other senses and of the viewer’s interpretive powers. Adams works with the belief that painting can open up context for reflection and transformation. “What we call abstract painting is about creating a space for thought,” she has explained, “a way to open the mind up and allow space for the other senses… When you look at them, you absorb an experience.”

“We are delighted to be working with Marina Adams. I have long admired her distinctive approach to form and colour and the energy of her vibrant paintings. I look forward to presenting Marina’s work for the first time in Hong Kong next week and then later this fall at our first exhibition together in New York.”

—Tim Taylor, Founder