Lindsay Adams presents SOIL in New York solo debut at Sean Kelly gallery

Lindsay Adams's exhibition SOIL marks her first solo presentation in New York at Sean Kelly gallery. This show represents her second collaboration with the gallery, featuring new paintings that explore darkness as a generative foundation rather than an absence. Adams investigates how color, gesture, and form can emerge from black grounds, describing color as both beginning and end in her artistic process. She connects her work to personal memories, including her grandmother Carrie Blue's pink peony tree and a green and white house in Bedford, Virginia. The artist's statement reveals how colors float through her mind across time and dimensions, linking visual elements to familial experiences and childhood recollections. Adams describes the alchemic decisions of line and mark as always connected by color, which she characterizes as magical and inexplicable. Her work continues an ongoing investigation into painting's emergence from darkness, using black as a productive starting point for artistic creation.