While visiting the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, the New York-based abstract painter Marina Adams became entranced by the ceramic tiles that seemed to multiply endlessly across its walls. It was a reminder, recalls the artist, that abstract images can create space for complex ideas to unfold. Her new exhibition, “Cosmic Repair,” at Timothy Taylor in Manhattan, channels that concept into large-scale canvases painted mostly over the past two years. She calls the works “necessarily political.” In “No Kings” (2025), a vertical band of oxblood red, white and blue anchors the canvas, while black and green press in from the sides; in the 2024-25 piece “Out of the Ashes (for Palestine),” a diamond form seems to break perpetually through the surface of the canvas. “I always think about the role of the artist in society,” she says. “With this work, I feel the need to offer people a creative sense of possibility.” “Cosmic Repair” will be on view at Timothy Taylor in Manhattan from Sept. 10 through Oct. 25, timothytaylor.com.
— Colleen Hamilton
