Lorna Simpson: Ink (an exhibition catalogue)

Glenn Ligon

Salon 94

This book spans nearly a decade of New York–based Marina Adams’ (born 1960) painting practice, culling and sequencing pages of images to highlight her bold pattern shifts. Fluently pushing color into form, Adams creates undulating shapes that reveal a powerful internal rhythm beneath their surface simplicity. Her work bears a Matisse-like connection to the intricate patterns of textiles as well as the rich designs of Moroccan rugs―and, for that matter, those by Sonia Delaunay. Another inspiration for the artist has been Moorish mosaics, such as the tessellated walls in the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, and the silhouettes of the ancient Greek caryatids which support the roof of the porch of the Erechtheion on the Athenian Acropolis. Painting by painting, the secret origami of Adams’ visual language unfolds as a favorite color travels across miles of canvas, absorbing rogue pigments along the way.

Marina Adams

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Published to accompany her exhibition at Salon 94, Huma Bhabha’s (born 1962) latest catalogue includes sculpture and works on paper from the past three years, including images of the artist’s presentation at MoMA PS1 in 2012, Unnatural Histories, and at the Venice Biennale in 2015. A sculptor first and foremost, the Pakistan-born, New York–based artist creates her works out of materials such as Styrofoam, clay, wire and scraps of construction material, combining figuration with abstract motifs to create post-apocalyptic-looking creatures. Bhabha’s works on paper are an equally haunting combination of modernist abstraction and representation; in vibrant colors, her figures are both fantastical and Picasso-esque. With nearly 250 images and essays by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and David Levi Strauss, this new hardcover is an essential monograph on Bhabha, whose concerns with war, colonialism and displacement are increasingly felt across borders.

Huma Bhabha

HEANEY, Seamus

Strauss, David

History & Criticism

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