Sean Kelly Gallery has introduced the illustration of summary painter Lindsay Adams in collaboration with PATRON Gallery in Chicago.
The Washington, D.C.–born artist attracts on her background in worldwide research and cultural anthropology in alchemical canvases that discover id, historical past, and collective reminiscence.
In 2025, Adams was commissioned by the Obama Presidential Middle in Chicago to create Weary Blues, a public set up named after the Langston Hughes poem, which integrates her summary portray with Black literary historical past in a communal café area. She is at present an artist in residence on the World Commerce Middle by way of Silver Artwork Initiatives.
Her apply contains portray and drawing, utilizing rigorous conceptual investigation as the place to begin for her vivid canvases. She makes use of each abstraction and illustration to assemble layered compositions that mirror each private and communal narratives. By layering gestural and chromatic components, Adams examines the fluid and altering nature of time and reminiscence. “Every mark intuitively invitations a dialogue between actuality and dreaming,” the artist stated of her apply in a press release.
Adams at present has a solo present with PATRON on view till June 14th, and had her first solo exhibition with Sean Kelly Gallery in Los Angeles this January.
On becoming a member of Sean Kelly’s program, she stated, “I’m honored to affix Sean Kelly Gallery, a program dedicated to imaginative and prescient, creativity, and artists who frequently push the boundaries of their apply. This marks a pivotal second for me—a possibility to deepen the questions I’m asking, develop the scope of the work, and develop inside a dynamic neighborhood that challenges and conjures up.”
Gallery founder Sean Kelly famous, “Her work is deeply considerate, formally rigorous, and profoundly transferring—rooted in a nuanced understanding of id, historical past, and creativeness.”
Adams’s work has been acknowledged with the Helen Frankenthaler Award (2024) and the New Artist Society Advantage Award (2023). Her work have been exhibited at establishments together with the Baltimore Museum of Artwork and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.
