Yura Adams, Just Below the Surface, 2021, Ink and acrylic on fabric and mylar, mounted on wooden stretchers, 30 x 30 x 3/8 inches.
NADA NEW YORK, 2022
Yura adams
Wordless Spaces
May 5 - 8, 2022
Olympia is proud to present Wordless Spaces, a solo booth of recent works by Yura Adams. Rooted in a visual and soundless language, Yura Adams’ paintings revel in the possibilities of semantic and syntactic meaning. Her studio is situated on a farm, where she looks to her immediate landscape, a valley with an ancient seabed floor, as a wellpool of visual resources.
Adams’ paintings pay homage to the influences of immediate visualizations, natural space, and microcosmic memories. The landscape serves as a scaffold for color; her creation of an abstract art form derived from a direct representation of composition. Adams takes her practice of working with materiality, and synthesizing translucent materials a step further, asserting that weather, patterns of geology, and biological growth are intrinsically linked to the mind.
Wordless Spaces feature paintings that revel in themselves and become what they represent: a landscape of the worlds we are made of.
Yura Adams is a painter and installation artist who uses translucent materials to interpret her personal research on weather, patterns of geology, and biological growth. Most recently, her work was selected for the Drawing Center Viewing Program, and was exhibited at Olympia, New York City, the Albany Airport Gallery, Albany, New York, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Kleinert/James Gallery in Woodstock, New York and Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut.
She has received grants from Pollock-Krasner Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Berkshire Taconic Foundation, New York Decentralization, and was a regional representative for New York Foundation of the Arts, Mark program.
Adams has taught painting in many schools including Rhode Island School of Design and has curated at Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College in Hudson, New York and recently for the exhibition “Unraveling” at Opalka Gallery, Russell-Sage College, Albany. She currently lives and works in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Yura Adams in her Great Barrington Studio, February 2022.