Lindsay Adams

Abstract paintings built from layered color and gesture that explore freedom, memory, and Black experience through accumulated mark-making.

Why go

Adams's work interrogates abstraction as a vehicle for personal and cultural narrative, weaving together the materiality of paint with memory and identity. Her practice has earned critical recognition including the Helen Frankenthaler Award and a commission for the Obama Presidential Center.

What to expect

Eleven abstract oil paintings on the third floor, featuring luminous blues, pinks, and yellows moving across dark grounds in energetic brushstrokes, with surfaces built from 20 to 30 layers of paint.

Things to know

• Chicago-based artist; born Washington, D.C., 1990
• MFA in Painting and Drawing from School of the Art Institute of Chicago; dual BAs from University of Richmond
• Received Helen Frankenthaler Award in 2024 and New Artist Society Merit Award in 2023
• Work held in Baltimore Museum of Art and Northwestern Law School collections; exhibited at Baltimore Museum of Art and Martin Luther King Jr
• Commissioned to create public installation 'Weary Blues' for Obama Presidential Center opening 2026
• Currently Artist-in-Residence at World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects