Lindsay Adams makes her New York solo debut at Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly is presenting SOIL, Lindsay Adams’s second exhibition with the gallery and her New York solo debut. This new body of work delves into Adams’s ongoing investigation into how paintings can emerge from a black ground, using darkness, not as absence, but as a generative foundation from which color, gesture, and form unfold. “The sounds of color echo in my dreams. It is the magic I cannot quite explain. The alchemic decisions of line and mark are always connected by color, it is the beginning and end. Colors float through my mind, across time and dimension, where I think of my grandmother, Carrie Blue’s, pink peony tree that sat outside of her window, or the green and white house tucked between the mountains of Bedford, Virginia, where I played with cousins on Easter Sunday. I can feel the dark brown coffee that is labeled as black,