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A powerful, compelling talk with Sadaf Padder and Lindsay Adams' exhibition SOIL at Sean Kelly Gallery, April 17-June 6, 2026.
The sumptuous colors and depth in her paintings were exhilarating to see. Every stroke had its own rhythm and pace, some dashing, others nearly silent. Prof Lieu
LINDSAY ADAMS
instagram.com/lindsaybriadams
skny.com/exhibitions/lindsay-adams2
lindsay-adams.com
SEAN KELLY GALLERY
instagram.com/seankellygallery
skny.com
SADAF PADDER
instagram.com/pitterpadder
sadafpadder.com
From the Sean Kelly website:
Sean Kelly is delighted to present 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, and the black and white newspaper with small moments of full color sits on the kitchen table I’d see each morning, next to the phthalo table napkins.
It is the answer and the questions, forcing me to confront both what I know and don’t know. Black– it is both absence and presence. It is there, even when you can’t see it. The cover of night, the moments of rest in a cool dark room.
It is the soil, the water, and the flowers. It is where I confront my burdens and where I lay my peace. Black understands light and darkness, and accepts all realities. It is both growth and decay, and stands, no matter the condition. Black, the ever beginning. Color, the decided end.” - Lindsay Adams
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A powerful, compelling talk with Sadaf Padder and Lindsay Adams' exhibition SOIL at Sean Kelly Gallery, April 17-June 6, 2026.
The sumptuous colors and depth in her paintings were exhilarating to see. Every stroke had its own rhythm and pace, some dashing, others nearly silent. Prof Lieu
LINDSAY ADAMS
instagram.com/lindsaybriadams
skny.com/exhibitions/lindsay-adams2
lindsay-adams.com
SEAN KELLY GALLERY
instagram.com/seankellygallery
skny.com
SADAF PADDER
instagram.com/pitterpadder
sadafpadder.com
From the Sean Kelly website:
Sean Kelly is delighted to present 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, and the black and white newspaper with small moments of full color sits on the kitchen table I’d see each morning, next to the phthalo table napkins.
It is the answer and the questions, forcing me to confront both what I know and don’t know. Black– it is both absence and presence. It is there, even when you can’t see it. The cover of night, the moments of rest in a cool dark room.
It is the soil, the water, and the flowers. It is where I confront my burdens and where I lay my peace. Black understands light and darkness, and accepts all realities. It is both growth and decay, and stands, no matter the condition. Black, the ever beginning. Color, the decided end.” - Lindsay Adams
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