A painting by Marina Adams is featured in Abstract Expressionism: The East End, 1940 to Today, now on view at The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York.

For generations, Long Island’s East End has been a place of artistic innovation, shaped by its landscape and vibrant community of artists. While Abstract Expressionism emerged and developed in New York, the movement took on particular significance on the East End, beginning in the 1940s with Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner establishing their home in Springs.

Drawing primarily from the Parrish’s permanent collection, the exhibition traces the development and enduring influence of Abstract Expressionism on the East End—from the first and second generations of the 1940s–60s to artists who have continued to expand the language of gestural painting in the decades since.

Adams’s Let the River Answer (2021) exemplifies her distinctive approach to abstraction, bringing colour, form, and movement together in a dynamic composition and reflecting the continued vitality of this artistic tradition on the East End.